Bettina Berger, Anke Steckelberg, Gabriele Meyer, Jürgen Kasper, Ingrid Mühlhauser
Training of patient and consumer representatives in the basic competencies of evidence-based medicine: a feasibility study
BMC medical education
explanation increasing heterogeneity inequality within aging cohorts central concern lifecourse perspective common ground demographers economists historians sociologists psychologists alike income wealth inequality among aged one area shared interest crossdisciplinary fertilization occurring indices aged economic inequality applied across different data sets replicate level inequality among elderly theoretical methodological concerns focused identifying specifying longterm interactions institutional lifecourse processes producing outcome institutional mechanisms incorporated opportunity structures labor markets pensions stratify availability resources rewards interact lifecourse processes related labor force history job mobility produce complex patterns cumulative advantage cumulative disadvantage however examination longterm mechanisms stratification requires finergrained observations work employer pension histories current datacollection strategies afford two biasesthe steady worker bias one pension biasare inherent longitudinal data bases hamper progress understanding production aged inequality