Although elderly men and women share many of the same problems as they age, their lives are likely to follow different … courses. Women are more likely than men to live into old old-age and are more likely to spend part of their young old …-age caring for husbands or parents. By providing this unpaid care women might enter retirement earlier, rather than prolonging …

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by …. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied …

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … adjustment of time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working … widowed. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less …

Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance … schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public … perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension …

Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance … schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public … perspective and considers household retirement incomes in the light of analysing old-age poverty and designing (minimum) pension …

I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …, creating a sharply different slope of benefits for similar women on either side of the kink point. I find that a 100 euro …

Several factors bring about a rise in old age poverty in Germany, especially in East Germany. Using data from the … German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) we examine causes and extent of old age poverty in Germany. We begin our inquiry with a …-occupied houses and flats. We find a significant rise in old age poverty especially in East Germany as a consequence of rising …

German Pension Insurance Office on a large cohort of pensioners to find out how the old-age poverty rate would be affected by …, especially on the labour supply of different earnings groups. -- Social security ; life expectancy ; poverty ; redistribution …

Armut vor Eintritt in das Rentenalter ansetzen sollte. …Which groups have particularly low pension entitlements and are therefore most at risk of poverty in old age …, unemployment, raising children or caring for relatives, all of which result in low pensions. Those who are most at risk of poverty …