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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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This study compares poverty among older adults in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan with that in selected Western societies and explores factors contributing to these high levels of poverty among older adults from a comparative perspective. Lower education levels of older people contribute to high...
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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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. This paper examines the problems of population ageing, low incomes, and social spending on the elderly in comparative …
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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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