Tag: National Income and Product Accounts

Mature man is hired to handle outreach to senior adults

The brief’s key findings are: Many believe that people are saving less for retirement due to the shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) plans. The analysis uses National Income and Product Accounts data, with adjustments, to compare DB benefit accruals with DC contributions from 1984-2012. The results show that the percentage of…

elderly man inserting credit card to ATM

National Income and Product Accounts data show no decline. Many commentators – ourselves included – assert that people are saving less for retirement as a result of the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution plans.  To support such an assertion, it would be nice to have counterfactual data showing what the world would look…