Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91988 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2004-29
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
Older women in Britain receive considerably less private pension income than older men, on average. We analyse this differential by examining differences between the sexes both in private pension coverage and in pension income conditional on receipt. Using regression-based decompositions, we show that both gaps are associated mainly with gender differences in returns to personal characteristics rather than with gender differences in personal characteristics per se. In particular, although there are marked differences between elderly men and elderly women in their lifetime employment histories, these differences account for only a small fraction of the overall private pension income gap between the sexes.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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