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Adequacy and Poverty Among Retired People
Author(s) -
Hauser Richard
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international social security review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1468-246X
pISSN - 0020-871X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-246x.00049
Subject(s) - poverty , demographic economics , developed country , geography , population , demography , socioeconomics , economics , economic growth , sociology
This paper compares the well‐being of the elderly populations in 14 highly industrialized countries. It is based on empirical data gathered by the Luxembourg Income Study referring to years around 1990. It shows that the positions of persons in pensioner households compared with persons in non‐pensioner households differ widely. In some countries there are also great differences between male and female pensioners, between age cohorts, and between the poverty ratios of the elderly population.