A cooperative comprehensive study by a group of researchers under the Luxembourg Income Study, aimed at summarizing the impact of noncash income on living standards and poverty in seven western nations. Emphasis in data analysis is placed on the life cycle perspective. The study also focuses on...

This is a comparative study of the core old-age security systems in the twelve member states of the EC applying the two main principles of the Beveridge Plan as standards of reference. The focus is on comparison of differences in benefit provision for (old age) women of these EC countries,...

Problems of the systems for protecting the elderly have become pressing on a world wide scale albeit for different reasons. In many industrialized countries with mature systems the share of GDP that is redistributed via the mandatory pension system is criticized as being too high. High...