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The Gerontologist, Vol 34, Issue 2 150-160, Copyright © 1994 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Sharing prosperity across the age distribution: a comparison of the United States and Germany in the 1980s

RV Burkhauser, GJ Duncan and R Hauser
Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, NY 13244-1090.

Using six waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel we compare the relative economic well-being of Americans and Germans in the 1980s. Economic growth during the 1980s substantially improved the economic well-being of the average person in the both the United States and Germany. But the rewards were disproportionately distributed across age and gender. In both countries, the family incomes of the very old, the very young and women were lower and grew more slowly than did the income of other families. Social security policy in Germany was more successful than American policy in providing income security in old age. But, despite massive social security programs in both countries, older women were still the most vulnerable members of society, in part because of a substantial drop in the level of social insurance they received following the death of their spouse.


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