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Health, wealth and progeny
— explaining the living arrangements of older European women | | Author(s) | Maria Iacovou |
| Corporate Author | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex University |
| Publisher | Electronic format, 2000 |
| Pages | 27 pp |
| Keywords | Older women ; Single persons ; Economic status [elderly] ; Living patterns ; Living alone ; European Union ; Comparison ; Europe. |
| Annotation | The increasing number of older people across industrialised countries, and the increasing proportion of older people who live alone, have enormous implications for social policy in those countries. This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to analyse the determinants of living alone for older unmarried women in Europe, and to examine how these determinants very between differing groups of countries. A number of methodological issues relating to research on living arrangements are also discussed. The main findings are that higher levels of income are related to a higher probability of living alone, although the relationship is S-shaped, with the main effect found in the second quartile in higher income countries, and the third quartile in lower income countries. Women with a limiting health problem are less likely to live alone in countries where social spending is relatively low, while women who have had more children are less likely to live alone in countries where residential mobility is relatively high. This paper is part of a project funded by the European Union (EU) under the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme (TSER). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-0505172012 E |
| Classmark | BD: SQ: F:W: K7: K8: WFC: 48: 74 * |
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