Tag: Social Security

elderly man inserting credit card to ATM

Abstract Using data on all employees at listed companies in Taiwan, we find that the bias toward employer stocks is generic to individual investor decision-making, but not limited to retirement plans. 71 percent of sample employees invest in employer stocks and the employer stocks make up on average 47 percent of employee equity portfolios. T…

Cheerful senior man at home looking at his mail

Introduction The general perception is that the Social Security program expanded significantly in the 1970s and today benefits are much higher relative to pre-retirement earnings than they were prior to that expansion.  Indeed, the Social Security Trustees Report shows that the replacement rate — benefits as a percent of pre-retirement earnings — for the averag…