gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link … profile of women's bargaining power and construct relative poverty rates for women. I find that bargaining power declines with … age, and that women's relative poverty rates closely match their higher than expected mortality rates by age. This match …

successful in protecting single older people from poverty, especially single older women, than government-administered social … following the death of a spouse, which we argue would substantially reduce the risk of poverty faced by older women … reducing poverty in old age. The transition from work to retirement is no longer economically perilous for the vast majority of …

nonmarried elderly women (widowed, divorced, or never married) are living in poverty today. This paper explores several policy …Although the Social Security program has substantially reduced poverty among older Americans, 17.3 percent of … options designed to reduce poverty by enhancing Social Security widow(er)'s benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits …

similar for Viet Nam, except older women, who are at greater risk of mental and physical health problems, appear to enjoy a …

number of new entrants into poverty. Blacks, Hispanics, and single women face a higher poverty rate than other seniors …. Poverty rates for women are nearly double that of men for almost all survey years. For example, in 2009, the poverty rates …This paper studies the poverty trends among older Americans (age 50 or older) between 2001 and 2009. The data for this …

faring? Here we study poverty rates and determinants of poverty among natives and persons born in Bosnia, Iran, Iraq … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …

This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse … tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The poverty status of a household is assessed using …, particularly those who arrive after age 40, be better integrated into the Swedish labour market. To alleviate pov-erty among those …

activity in old age, in particular for women, interacts with several domains of social exclusion, potentially leading to a …

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 …

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 …