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October 1989

Employer-sponsored life insurance: a new look

Adam Z. Bellet

For the first time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics derives average amounts of life insurance coverage for full-time employees of medium-sized and large private firms. This article reports on the first effort to utilize the data on plan provisions to derive this information.

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