Can we determine the poverty levels of the population aged 65 and over without considering their assets? How much can … we reduce poverty rates among older adults if their assets are liquidated? To answer these questions, we investigate … poverty rates among older adults relatively by taking residential property into account using an actuarial method applied to a …

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed.In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

programmes are intended to reduce poverty in old age by providing monetary transfers in mean-tested schemes. However, little is …

used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … authors use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which they compare with poverty rates … as measured in the Current Population Survey. They use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate …

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 …

analysis of poverty. In this chapter, we examine the poverty incidence among older people across LIS countries, relying on data … from the Luxembourg Income Study. The data show that poverty rates are substantially reduced by redistribution via tax …/benefit systems (mainly via pension benefits). Furthermore, the data show that old-age poverty rates and the antipoverty effect of …

This article examines the 2012 poverty status of Social Security adult type of benefit (TOB) groups using both the … official poverty measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). For each TOB group the article compares the SPM estimate … with the official poverty measure estimate. In addition, it estimates the effects of various features of the SPM on poverty …