Poverty Among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story
In: The State of Economics in Canada: Festschrift in Honour of David Slater
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Keywords
Poverty; Elderly Poverty; Canada; Retirement; Income; Low Income; Low-income; Wealth; Capital Gains;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O51 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
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