The Economic Legacy of Divorced and Separated Women in Old Age

Lynn McDonald and A. Robb ()

Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers from McMaster University

Abstract: Although progress has been made over the last 20 years, the burden of a low income in old age is still carried by unattached women. Few researchers, however, have examined exactly where the burden of poverty falls within the category of unattached older women or the nature of this poverty. Like any other group of older Canadians, unattached women are not a homogenous population. The category of "unattached" includes the separated, divorced, widowed and ever single, all of whom face different circumstances in old age because of differences over the life course. Using SLID data we examine income and sources of income from 1993 to 1999 to identify differences among these groups. The findings indicate that the separated and divorced are the poorest of all older unattached women in Canada. A key source of the difference is the growth in private pension incomes.

Keywords: low income; old age; unattached women; SLID (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2003-07
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