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| Ethnic elders and pension protection in the United Kingdom | | Author(s) | Athina Vlachantoni, Zhixin Feng, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 5, May 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, May 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1025-1049 |
| Source | cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Pensions ; Social surveys ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Pension receipt in later life is determined by the way in which individuals' pension contributions and circumstances over the life-course interact with eligibility rules. Within the British context, such pensions relate to sources such as the State Pension, an occupational or private pension, and Pension Credit. Existing research shows that membership of certain ethnic groups is associated with a lower likelihood of receiving occupational or private pensions. Data from Understanding Society (a longitudinal survey) allows us to build on existing evidence, by examining the factors associated with the receipt of three different kinds of pension income - State, occupational or private, and Pension Credit - among older men and women from separate Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups. The results show that belonging to certain BME groups reduces one's chances of receiving the State Pension, or an occupational or private pension, but increases the chance of receiving Pension Credit. The gender-specific analysis shows that these results hold true for many BME groups of men, whereas among women, only Pakistani women are less likely than White British women to receive an occupational or private pension. Such findings provide up-to-date empirical evidence that ethnic inequalities in pension protection are still evident, and contribute to the increasingly important debate in the United Kingdom and elsewhere regarding migrants' social security and welfare over the life-course and in later life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170421207 A |
| Classmark | TK: JJ: 3F: 8 |
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