Many states have recently made or are considering changes to their teacher retirement systems. However, little is known … about how teachers value various elements of their retirement benefits versus other aspects of their jobs and compensation … representative survey of teachers to estimate their willingness-to-pay for various retirement plan characteristics and other non …

retirement plans, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s March 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS), the most recent data currently … union that sponsored a retirement plan in 2010. Among full-time, full-year wage and salary workers ages 21-64 (those with …-time, full-year wage and salary workers ages 21-64, 54.5 percent participated in a retirement plan. This is virtually unchanged …

valuation of different forms of retirement benefits …

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This paper introduces a new method of analyzing the results from the EBRI Retirement Security Projection Model (RSPM … sufficient retirement income to pay for the simulated expenses, the new method computes what percentage of the households will … insufficient retirement income either 30 or 50 percent of the time. The larger income cohorts also experience a major impact at …

This paper provides results from EBRI's Retirement Security Projection Model® to examine claims that merely working to … age 70 would provide most workers with adequate retirement income levels. Contrary to some reports that working just a … little bit longer -- to age 70 -- will allow between 80 and 90 percent of households to have adequate income in retirement …

-based retirement plan, and to know the characteristics of workers with and without a plan - the subject of this paper. The findings … (typically a 401(k)-type plan). In 2007, 18.1 percent of family heads who participated in an employment-based retirement plan had … significant impact on the funds available for these participants in retirement. The EBRI-ERF Retirement Security Projection Model …