Athina Vlachantoni

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Jane Falkingham |Athina Vlachantoni |Yifan Ge

Governments around the world have addressed the challenge of increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates by raising the pension age. The UK is no exception. The challenge this creates for governments is the thorny dual issue of rising care costs for the ageing population while fewer taxpayers support the economy. Between the 1940s and 2010, the UK state pension age was 65 for men and 60 for women.

Feb 5, 2025 | theconversation.com | Athina Vlachantoni |Jane Falkingham |Maria Evandrou

There’s an ethnic pension gap in the UK that leaves people from particular minority ethnic communities worse off in retirement than their white British counterparts. The gap can be measured in several ways – for example, by comparing the pension amount between ethnic communities or measuring the proportion of working-age people from different ethnic groups who are signed up to a workplace pension scheme.

May 13, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Athina Vlachantoni |Maria Evandrou |Jane Falkingham |Min Qin

Keywords dynamicsunmet needsocial careolder peopleEnglandlongitudinal Type Article Information Ageing & Society ,Volume 44 ,Issue 6 , June 2024 , pp. 1247 - 1265 Creative Commons This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. Copyright Copyright © The Author(s), 2022.

Apr 19, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Maria Evandrou |Jane Falkingham |Madelin Gomez-Leon |Athina Vlachantoni

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