First considered, at a point in time, is how cross-country differences in the mix of income sources are related to three measures of economic well-being. Poverty, defined as 50 percent of mean-adjusted household income; relative adjusted disposable income of aged households with heads over 55...

This paper details the institutional structure of compensations to the elderly for interruptions of working life and for non-market (family) work as well as the various forms of minimum pensions for six LIS countries. Comparisons are then made using poverty rates and poverty gaps as to the...

This paper analyzes how the economic penalty for labor withdrawal and the cushions created by society affect the persistent trend toward early retirement of men in their late fifties and early sixties. Microdata for six LIS countries is used to determine why this early exit took place in the...