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Download full textNelson, Charles T. – Current Population Reports, 1987
This document contains 4 charts and 15 tables describing the pension coverage of workers and the income of retirees in the United States as of 1984. Data were gathered through the fourth wave topical module to the 1984 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, conducted from September through December of 1984. The prevalence of…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Practices, Income, Older Adults
Heim, Peggy – 1992
A study was done of the savings patterns and financial resources of households receiving teacher's retirement insurance benefits. For the survey a mail questionnaire was sent in fall 1988 to a statistically drawn sample of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund annuitants. Over 900 questionnaires were completed…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Family Financial Resources, Financial Needs, Fringe Benefits
Palmer, Bruce A. – Research Dialogues, 1993
This paper presents a method for higher education faculty and staff to assess pension plan objectives by determining a retirement income replacement ratio to maintain the salary-based preretirement standard of living. The paper describes the RETIRE Project which researches income replacement using the federal government's annual "Consumer…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Family Financial Resources, Financial Needs, Fringe Benefits
Heim, Peggy – Research Dialogues, 1991
A national survey of college and university retirees in Spring 1990 sought to help institutions to assess benefit programs and provide services for retirees. The survey involved a nationwide cross section of 130 institutions of higher education from which responses were received from 19,126 retirees (40 percent retired faculty). Questions covered…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Employment Practices, Faculty College Relationship
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1996
This issue describes the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) life-annuity income options and traces the trends in their selection over a 17-year period, 1978-1994. Other income-related choices at or before retirement are also explored. The article emphasizes that participants in defined…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Factors, Financial Needs, Fringe Benefits
Phillips, Mary Ellen; And Others – Research Dialogues, 1992
This paper analyzes four personal financial planning "expert systems," which institutions of higher education might offer their employees. Such computerized planning systems, like comprehensive plans and professional planners, help families manage their assets and obligations during their lifetimes and plan for distributing their wealth…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Employees, Employment Practices
