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...