Social scientists and public health researchers have long known that social position is
related to health and that socioeconomic inequalities in health persist in later life …

Background Research on the social determinants of health is increasingly using welfare
regime theory. Although a key argument is that population health will be better and health …

In research on pensions and retirement income, it has been frequently reasoned that the
economic situation in later life is determined by an interplay of individual and institutional …

This study examines the retirement income of women in Europe, focusing on the effect of
motherhood. Due to their more interrupted working careers compared to non-mothers and …

This review forms part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's programme to develop a set of
evidence-based anti-poverty strategies for the UK. The remit was to identify and analyse …

This paper argues that the UK pension system is gender blind and is structured around a
heteropatriarchal experience. It does so by analysing two key pieces of UK pension policy …

Europe's pensions landscape has changed dramatically since the 1990s. This paper tries to
assess better the impact of these changes using a broad social sustainability framework …

We examine how the life courses of couples in East and West Germany are linked to
women's income in later life using multichannel sequence analysis. By applying a couple …

The article addresses the question of how individuals with nonstandard work or family
histories fare under different national pension systems in terms of their individual and …

While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and
earnings gaps, rather little is understood about their sequel in old age the gender pension …