| Michel Oris, Long Lives and...
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Michel Oris, Long Lives and Old Age Poverty - Descripción
 This presentation combines an inter- and an intra-cohort perspective to study one outcome of long lives: economic vulnerability in old age. The theoretical background is given through a combination of a social stratification framework, which incorporates cumulative disadvantage theory, and an institutional perspective emphasizing life course policies. At the macro level, the increase in educational offerings from the 1930s to the 1960s and the progressive implementation of a pension system were the driving forces of the strong decrease in old age poverty experienced over the last three decades, creating impressive differences between the cohorts. At an individual level, the pathway from low education early in life to economic hardship after retirement is by far the most important. This result supports social stratification theory. The inability to take advantage of opportunities because of low human capital was a major source of vulnerability. Moreover, while in childhood and adulthood both education and a pension system based on life capital accumulation discriminated against women, in old age welfare institutions partly compensated for the prior disadvantage. |
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