characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … fare? What is the mix between public and private sources of income? Do the elderly poor remain poor? There is also a …

affect post-retirement income in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate a PROBIT model and perform a … counterfactual simulation to assess the effects of changes in the earnings distributions on pensions in the UK. The paper uses data … from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Findings – The distribution of labour earnings before retirement plays a …

income from private pensions compared with the Canadian born. Immigrants from non-traditional source countries have low … levels of CPP/QPP income relative to immigrants from traditional source countries or the Canadian born. In terms of OAS …/GIS income, immigrant men who arrived at age 60 or older have in the order of 50% lower incidence of receiving pension income …

population is expected to impose a heavy fiscal burden through age-related programs like pensions and health care, immigration is … of low income on consumption. …

This paper explores impacts of recessions on private pensions and retirement savings in Canada. We estimate that the … recovery the recession would have reduced expected retirement income of future retirees by averages of 3.4% and 11.0% for DB … hypothetical economy with a recession once a decade. For DB plans, unemployment caused by recessions can reduce pensions by up to …