Évolution de la pauvreté et des inégalités parmi les retraités en France

Abstract

This article examines the evolving poverty among pensioner households since the early 1970s, in relation to the general evolution of the relative living standard of these pensioners over the same period. The ranking of workingage and retirement-age households in terms of poverty rates reversed in the late 1970s, in particular under the influence of the increase in old age security pension and the arrival at retirement of generations with full pension rights and assessed according to more advantageous rules. Through this policy, the average living standard of pensioners has more or less caught up with that of the working population, with slightly less income dispersion for the former. The pensions policy was subsequently tightened in the mid-1980s. At this stage, the relative positioning of both categories of population has not been called into question. The prospects created by the pension reforms of 1993 and 2003 are examined in the conclusion.