Late-Life Living Arrangements and Intergenerational Ties in Egypt. Elderly Socio-Economic Conditions from Labor Market Surveys

This research project takes a socio-demographic approach to analyze – from a gender and geographic perspective – dynamics in living arrangements of the elderly and changes in intergenerational relationships in Egypt during the 14 years between 1998 and 2012. It builds on data from all three rounds of the ELMPS (1998, 2006 and 2012). The paper aims to verify the consistency of the trends focuses emerging from changes in late-life living arrangements.