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Social Security Reform : A Budget Neutral Approach to Reducing Older Women's Disproportional Risk of Poverty
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2011
Perhaps the single greatest achievement of social policy in the United States over the last three decades has been reducing poverty in old age. The transition from work to retirement is no longer economically perilous for the vast majority of older American workers. For most married couples, the...
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Pension programs around the world : determinants of social pension
Rudolph, Alexandra - 2016
Old-age poverty is to become one of the most pressing issues in the coming decades given the demographic trends forecasted. Particularly in developing countries this could be an obstacle to inclusive and sustainable growth as well as the fight against all forms of poverty (SDG 1), through shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518737
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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel
Hemmings, Philip - 2010
Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which is concentrated among the Arab-Israeli and Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities. Policies include pilot programmes involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin”...
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Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
for select categories of deserving poor (the elderly and orphans), administered through the Department of Local Government …
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Basic Pensions and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Faye, Ousmane - 2014
household, with elderly members, which translates into large decreases in aggregate poverty measures. The paper also analyzes …
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(Anti)Poverty Measures Exposed
Lipman, Francine J. - 2018
Few economic indicators have more salience and pervasive financial impact on everyday lives in the United States than poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117404
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Poverty Among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story
Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
line fell from 26.2 per cent to 15.8 per cent over the same period. In contrast, the elderly poverty rate and gap before … the past several decades. Many of the current elderly population received significant capital gains from a large run up in … housing prices in the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, the elderly have not been hit by the labour market insecurity that has …
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Armut im Alter : Ursachenanalyse und eine Projektion für das Jahr 2023
Kumpmann, Ingmar; Gühne, Michael; Buscher, Herbert S. - 2010
Verschiedene Faktoren bewirken eine Zunahme der Altersarmut in Deutschland, insbesondere in Ostdeutschland. Mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) untersuchen wir Ursachen und Ausmaß der Altersarmut in Deutschland. Wir beginnen mit einer Querschnittsregression zur Bestimmung der...
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Poverty risk among older immigrants in a Scandinavian welfare state
Jakobsen, Vibeke; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2016
Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries outside the OECD, with main emphasis on immigrants coming as guest workers before 1974, as refugees and as family members and marriage partners - tied movers - relative to...
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Time Trends in Poverty for Older Americans between 2001-2009
Banerjee, Sudipto - 2014
This paper studies the poverty trends among older Americans (age 50 or older) between 2001 and 2009. The data for this study come from the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study (HRS), sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, and the most comprehensive national survey of older...
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