Warlick J L
J Gerontol. 1985 Nov;40(6):751-7. doi: 10.1093/geronj/40.6.751.
This paper compares the composition of family income for families with aged male and female heads to determine why poverty during old age is so heavily concentrated among the families of aged women. Data from the March 1968 and 1979 Current Population Surveys were used. The inferior economic position of women is due to deficient market incomes and dependence upon deceased husbands for private and public pensions. Policies that encourage work and insure adequate survivor benefits will raise the relative economic status of these families.
本文比较了以老年男性和女性为户主的家庭的家庭收入构成，以确定为何老年贫困如此严重地集中在老年女性家庭中。使用了1968年3月和1979年当前人口调查的数据。女性经济地位较低是由于市场收入不足以及在私人和公共养老金方面依赖已故丈夫。鼓励工作并确保充足遗属福利的政策将提高这些家庭的相对经济地位。
