Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/160978 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 306
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
This paper surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and older people in industrialized countries using data up to the mid-1990s. It addresses a series of questions. At what level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a whole? How has this changed over the past two decades? How many of the old are poor? How many of the poor are old? Are the oldest of the old poorer than younger pensioners are? The results show that the incomes of older people are typically around 80 per cent of incomes of the whole population. This ratio has been increasing over the past two decades in most countries. Although there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, the old are generally represented proportionally or under-represented among the poor.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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