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Older workers
— who are the working poor in the U.S? | | Author(s) | Yoon G Lee, Hsun-Mei Teng, Sin-How Lim |
| Journal title | Hallym International Journal of Aging, vol 7, no 2, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 95-114 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Poor elderly ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using data from the 2000 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the purpose of this study was to provide a profile of older workers who live in poverty, and to compare the demographic, financial, employment and health attributes of such individuals to similar persons not living in poverty. This study found that 3.5% of employed individuals between the ages of 51 and 61 belonged to the class of working poor. The results of the multivariate logistic regression analyses indicated that the older working poor were more likely to be non-white, less educated, non-married and had lower levels of net worth than the working non-poor. They were more likely to be employed part time and were less likely to be covered by employee-sponsored health insurance. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070814212 A |
| Classmark | GC: F:W6: F: CC: 3F: 7T |
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