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Sliding into poverty? Cross-national patterns of income source change and income decay in old age

Williamson, James; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a … focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study … database. We investigate the change of private income and social benefits following synthetic cohorts for two decades. Our …

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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

We analyze trends in the age of economic independence in six industrialized countries, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment rates, earnings levels, and net incomes as young adults...

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Poverty and income maintenance in old age: A cross-national view of low income older women

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Sandstrom, Susanna - 2005

Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older women are much higher than those for older men and much...

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Income poverty and income support for minority and immigrant children in rich countries

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Robson, Karen; Wing, Coady; … - 2009

children. For all of the fourteen countries in the combined sample, children in migrant families have greater market-income … poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 …The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the databases underlying the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions …

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