Retirement Ages by Socio-Economic Class

Sex-specific equivalent retirement ages: 1940-2050.

This article presents four measures of equivalent retirement ages to be considered when analyzing retirement age issues. Insofar as previous research reveals significant sex differences in life expectancy at the older ages, the analysis here extends the question of equity when increased retirement age is considered by examining each measure separately for men and for women. The measures are app...

Economic Preparation for Retirement

We define and estimate measures of economic preparation for retirement based on a complete inventory of economic resources while taking into account the risk of living to advanced old age and the risk of high out-of-pocket spending for health care services. We ask whether, in a sample of 66–69 year-olds, observed economic resources could support with high probability a life-cycle consumption pa...

Socio-economic class, rurality and risk of cutaneous melanoma by site and gender in Sweden

BACKGROUND Cutaneous melanoma (CM) is a cancer usually associated with high socio-economic level in the literature. Few studies have, however, assessed this relationship by gender and site or the association between CM and rurality. METHODS A major-sized historical occupational Swedish cohort comprising 2,992,166 workers was used to estimate relative risk of cutaneous melanoma, broken down by...

Socio-economic database online

The SEDO project develops a platform combining fast access, user freedom, and coherence of the results for presenting complex socio-economic data. As an initial yield, this joint project involving two research actors of Luxembourg, the CEPS/INSTEAD for the content and the CRP-Gabriel Lippman for the technical realization, will deliver on the Net the results of longitudinal surveys about the lif...

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