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Armoede en ongelijkheid bij ouderen: Een vergelijkende studie van de pensioenstelsels in België en Nederland
Keupers, Ingrid - 2009
Pension systems in European countries are under review due to demographic changes. As a solution to the graying population, second and third pillar pensions are advocated. However, it is important not to lose sight of the social consequences of encouraging these private pensions. In this master...
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The Pension Income of the Elderly: A Comparison between Belgium and the Netherlands
Dekkers, Gijs J. M. - 1998
This article starts by discussing the two (semi-collective) layers of the pension system in the Netherlands separately. Then, the Belgian pension system will be discussed. Apart from the cost of the pension system (which will only be discussed very briefly), comparison of the pension systems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652912
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The Public-Private Mix of Retirement Income in Nine OECD Countries: Some Evidence from Micro-data and on Exploration of its Implications
Casey, Bernard H.; Yamada, Atsuhiro - 2002
Over the past three decades, the wellbeing of people over retirement age has improved, not only absolutely but also relatively. Being old is no longer synonymous with being poor. This improvement has occurred across almost all of the main OECD countries, and has occurred almost regardless of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653037
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335361
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335554
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The Economic Well-Being of Older People in International Perspective: A Critical Review
Disney, Richard; Whitehouse, Edward - 2002
This paper surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and older people in industrialized countries using data up to the mid-1990s. It addresses a series of questions. At what level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a whole? How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653032
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Adequacy and Poverty among the Retired
Hauser, Richard - 1998
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652908
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Poverty Among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story in International Perspective
Osberg, Lars - 2001
Canada was very late in establishing a comprehensive retirement security system - lagging roughly thirty five years … strong, trend in income distribution data in Canada. Section 1 therefore begins by describing the long run trend in poverty … among senior citizens (those aged 65 and over) in Canada, and presents the 'Poverty Box' to compare the rate and depth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653000
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The empirics of the median voter: Democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - 2009
The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335331
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Four critiques of the redistribution hypothesis: An assessment
Milanovic, Branko - 2010
The reformulation of the median voter hypothesis and its testing proposed in Milanovic (2000) has been criticized from four different perspectives. The critiques are discussed and assessed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335351