Transition to Retirement of 1990s Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel.
Economic/financial inequality
Immigrants
Mass migration from the FSU
Retirement
SHARE
Socio-economic comparison
Journal
Journal of cross-cultural gerontology
ISSN: 1573-0719
Titre abrégé: J Cross Cult Gerontol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8700909
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2021
Sep 2021
Historique:
accepted:
21
08
2021
pubmed:
4
9
2021
medline:
11
9
2021
entrez:
3
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The purpose of the current research was to compare pre- and post-retirement financial and economic resources of two groups of Jewish Israelis, Russian-speaking immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Hebrew-speaking veteran Israelis. The strategy of data-processing was based on SHARE Wave 6 (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) and included two levels of analysis: a) household general economic indices and b) individual economic variables for two age subsamples ('51-66' and '67 + '). The research-based model of well-being enabled comparison of economic profiles of the studied groups. The results of logistic regression and discriminant analysis of twenty SHARE 6.0 monetary variables displayed economic and financial inequality of retirement resources between veteran Israeli residents and Russian-speaking immigrants. Lower values of main residence, owned vehicles, and private pensions, together with higher values of mortgage burden, rent expenses, and inter-family support were significant distinguishing features of FSU immigrants. Analysis of the household indices demonstrated that the group of older FSU immigrants was most vulnerable due to their lowest values of household net worth and total income. According to the results of inter- and intra-gender comparisons of incomes between the groups of '67 + ' representatives, Russian-speaking women were identified as having the fewest resources. The retirement resources of Russian-speaking Israelis were clearly inferior to those of Hebrew-speaking veteran Israelis of the same age.Future research of retirement resources of Israelis may include non-financial components of human capital and additional socio-demographic factors.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34476641
doi: 10.1007/s10823-021-09437-9
pii: 10.1007/s10823-021-09437-9
doi:
Types de publication
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
321-345Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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