Tag: retirement
Cuts in public pensions taking place around the country could reduce the ability of state and local governments to recruit and retain top-quality workers, according to new findings by the Center for Retirement Research, which sponsors this blog. Economists have long argued that pensions and worker quality are related. Pensions, like paychecks, are a form…
Social Security’s old-age pensions were designed to replace more of the earnings of retired low-wage workers than of higher-wage workers. But how is this progressivity affected by the federal income taxes paid by all workers and retirees? A study by economists at the Center for Retirement Research, which sponsors this blog, analyzed this complex issu…
