This study analyzes data on specific private sector pension plans (referred to as “multiemployer plans”) to assess the overall national economic impact of benefits paid by these plans to retirees. We estimate the employment, output, value added, and tax impacts of pension benefit expenditures from multiemployer plans at the national level, and find that the … Continue reading Pensionomics 2018: Measuring the Economic Impact of Multiemployer DB Pension Expenditures