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| Reconsidering the divergence between elderly, child and overall poverty | | Author(s) | David Brady |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 26, no 5, September 2004 |
| Pages | pp 487-510 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Poor elderly ; Poverty ; Children ; Measurement ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Comparing the official US measure with the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) measure, the author shows that the official measure underestimates older people's poverty by a significant amount, and child poverty by a lesser amount. Both age groups are much more likely to be poor than the overall population. Analyses of 18 rich Western democracies show that overall and child poverty are very strongly positively correlated, whereas older people poverty is moderately correlated with those two. Multivariate analyses show that some commonalities and some differences in the sources of these three. Two measures of the welfare state significantly reduce overall, older and child poverty. Whereas female labour force participation reduces all three, manufacturing, employment, economic performance and demographic variables only influence one in two of the dependent variables. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040909224 A |
| Classmark | F:W6: W6: SBC: 3R: 7T |
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