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implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a …
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The aim of this paper is to compare the economic situation of young retirees with their peers who decided to continue their working life before and during the recent economic crisis using the micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) for four countries (Greece, Spain, the UK and...
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data on household incomes from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to assess their distribution and finance across the income … distribution in ten countries. The results indicate a wide range of differences in levels of economic resources and support, within …
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This paper measures high medical expenses in ten developed countries, both overall and by income and age, providing some of the best evidence to date on the extent of high medical spending across and within countries. Using comparable household-level data on out-of pocket (OOP) medical...
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current trends of income distribution using a birth cohort perspective. In addition, a detailed analysis of these trends is …. private pension income, purchasing power parities (PPP) adjusted income amounts, and the shape of the income distribution. The …
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Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …, couples only, living with their married children, living with their unmarried children, and other. There is more elderly … living with their children in Asian countries than Western countries. However, elderly living with their married children are …
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. Relative to 12 Western countries, Taiwan has a moderate child poverty rate but a much higher elderly poverty rate, leading to … largest contribution to both child and elder poverty rates, but has a much more negative effect on elderly poverty. Older … adults' higher rates of co-residence with family members has a strong ameliorating impact on elderly poverty. Implications in …
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