Tag: Survey of Income and Program Participation
Abstract Recent research has called attention to alternative employment arrangements that often leave workers without retirement and health benefits and with income instability. At the same time, workers are facing increasing competition from automation and globalization. This competition is of special concern for older workers, who increasingly need longer careers to secure an adequate retirement…
A 2017 paper by Adam Bee and Joshua Mitchell re-documented that the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) understates retirement income, renewing concern around the accuracy of income measurements in the CPS. Some have wondered if this problem applies to retirement income estimates in other survey datasets as well – calling into question decades of…
