Are the old poor? A discussion and some cursory evidence

Gijs Dekkers

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Abstract: Many of us associate old-age and retirement with vulnerability, both physical and economical. Even though the position of the group of elderly as a whole has improved considerably and is now no less than that of younger cohorts , poverty among elderly remains an issue worth of analyzing, also since they have fewer possibilities to recover from a drop in income, for example by changing their labour market behaviour. This paper hopes to give cursory evidence on the poverty position of the elderly, while discussing some recent research.

Keywords: poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-11-18
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