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Until death do us part
— an analysis of the economic well-being of widows in four countries | | Author(s) | Richard V Burkhauser, Philip Giles, Dean R Lillard |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 5, September 2005 |
| Pages | pp S238-S246 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Widows ; Well being ; Economic status [elderly] ; Income [older people] ; Pensions ; Cross national surveys ; United States of America ; Germany ; United Kingdom ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Changes in a woman's economic well-being following her husband's death and the importance of public and private income sources in offsetting the economic consequences of that death are examined in the US, Germany, the UK and Canada. With data from the Cross National Equivalent File, the authors used event history analysis to track changes in the social security replacement rate and the more comprehensive total income replacement rate and to show how these changes vary across age and household income quintiles across and within countries. There were substantial differences across the countries in how income from these specific sources changes, especially with respect to the role of income from government and private sources, but the overall across country pattern of total income replacement rates was remarkably similar both in size and the distribution across age and the woman's place in the income distribution prior to her husband's death. Studies that focus on a social security replacement rate will seriously understate the actual total income replacement rate of women following a husband's death. This will especially be the case in countries like the US where private sources of income play a more important role in income replacement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070904218 A |
| Classmark | SP: D:F:5HH: F:W: JF: JJ: 3K: 7T: 767: 8: 7S |
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