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What has happened to the income of retired households over the past 40 years?
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8 August 2017 9:30am
Summary
This short article analyses some of the key trends in the income of retired households between 1977 and 2015⁄16. Retired households are those where the income of retired household members accounts for the majority of the total household gross income.
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