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| Work history and US elders' transitions into poverty | | Author(s) | Diane K McLaughlin, Leif Jensen |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 4, August 2000 |
| Pages | pp 469-479 |
| Keywords | Economic status [elderly] ; At risk ; Poor elderly ; Transitional phase ; Remuneration ; Urban areas ; Rural areas ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Poverty risks among older people are shaped in critical ways by their work history, demographic characteristics, current marital status and residential context. Using 25 years of data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the authors combined past occupation and work history of older people and their spouses with information on current marital status and residence to estimate discrete time event history models of first transition into poverty after reaching age 55. Education, work history and pre-retirement wages contributed to men's and women's probability of becoming poor. Work history remained an important predictor of transitions into poverty, even after controlling for pre-retirement wages and accumulated capital. Living in a town of city was associated with a lower probability of making transitions into poverty. This residential difference was not appreciably attenuated in three of four sub-groups after measures of work history, pre-retirement wages, current life events and demographic characteristics were included in the models. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001102218 A |
| Classmark | F:W: CA3: F:W6: 4MT: WL: RK: RL: 7T |
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