Age And Inequality

Diverse Pathways Through Later Life

• Author(s): Angela O'rand, John C Henretta,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 264
• ISBN_10: 0429970994
  ISBN_13: 9780429970993
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the inequalities observed in older populations stem from structural and individual processes that differentiate the life courses of women and men and yield distinctive patterns of economic inequality in adulthood and old age.