DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC WELL BEING AT OLDER AGES

这是一项与之竞争的研究支持续展申请 原始计划项目的项目1。它建议回答问题 关于老年人的经济福祉，特别强调 年长的女人。该提案将同时使用横截面和纵向 衡量老年退休人员和老年人经济幸福感的数据 相对于其他人口的工人，都在美国 与两个现代西方工业化国家-- 德意志联邦共和国和联合王国--确定如何 在过去的25年里，脆弱的老年群体无论是绝对的还是 相对于人口中的其他物种。 在方法论上，我们将认识到老年人内部的多样性 人口和跨年龄组，超越以下综合衡量标准 他们的经济幸福感-平均收入，收入中位数，五分之一的地位， 基尼系数等，我们将利用新一代 度量不等式的非参数技术--核密度估计 以显示整个收入分配的形状以及它是如何变化的 随着时间的推移。当我们开始使用横截面数据进行分析时，我们将 通过以下方式集中研究收入分配的动态 随着时间的推移，追踪他们在整个分布地区的行动。 我们最终将检验重大事件-统一 德国和美国20世纪80年代的十年-对应 随着政权的变化，在总体收入分配和地位 在该分布范围内的老年和弱势群体。

This is a competing continuation application for research support for project 1 of the original program project. It proposes to answer questions about the economic well-being of older persons with a special emphasis on older women. This proposal will use both cross-sectional and longitudinal data to measure economic well-being of older retired people and older workers relative to the rest of the population, both in the United States and in comparison with two modem western industrialized countries-the Federal Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom-to determine how vulnerable older groups fared over the past 25 years both absolutely and relative to others in the population. Methodologically, we will recognize the diversity both within the older population and across age groups by moving beyond summary measures of their economic well-being-mean income, median income, quintile position, Gini coefficient, etc.-and we will take advantage of a new generation of nonparametric techniques to measure inequality-kernel density estimation to show the shape of the entire income distribution and how it has changed over time. While we begin our analysis using cross-sectional data we will concentrate on the dynamics of income distribution by following individuals over time and tracing their movements across the distribution. And we will eventually test whether or not major events-the reunification of Germany and the decade of the l980s in the United States-correspond with regime changes in the overall income distribution and in the position of older and vulnerable groups within that distribution.