Arbeitspapier

How Do Social Security and Income Affect the Living Arrangements of the Elderly? Evidence from Reforms in Mexico and Uruguay

It has been shown that the social security system and other sorts of government transfers have helped poor elderly people, such as widows, to live alone in the U. S. This paper investigates whether government financial support contributed to the increase in the probability of the vulnerable elderly living alone in Latin American countries as well. Specifically, the countries that in the 1980s experienced government reforms favorable to the vulnerable elderly, Mexico and Uruguay, are examined. It is concluded that the improvement of educational attainment was mainly responsible for helping the elderly poor to live alone in rural areas in Mexico, and not the government system. On the other hand, in Uruguay, for unmarried elderly females, the increase in social security income explains most of the increase in the probability of living alone.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 432

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Alte Menschen
Alleinlebende
Lebensstandard
Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung
Öffentliche Sozialleistungen
Mexiko
Uruguay

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Shinkai, Naoko
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department
(wo)
Washington, DC
(wann)
2000

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Shinkai, Naoko
  • Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Entstanden

  • 2000

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