Social vulnerability for older persons, especially older women, due to insufficient income in retirement and earlier in life and low market earnings may be attributable to many sources, both demographic and economic, in our globalizing world. This paper examines the problems of population...

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the databases underlying the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects...

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the databases underlying the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects...

This paper uses microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study <p>How Do the Elderly in Taiwan Fare Cross-Nationally? Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study Project<p> <p> Peter Saunders and Timothy M. Smeeding<p> <p> Social Policy Research Centre, Discussion Paper, No.81<p> <p> Abstract<p> <p>This paper uses microdata...</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>