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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2014;34(Suppl 1):208–237.

Table 5.

Comparisons of labor income and consumption, selected countries.

Indonesia (1996) Taiwan (1998) Thailand (1998) US (2000)
Crossing ages for consumption and labor income (Yl(x)>C(x))
First age 20 25 26 26
Last age 60 56 59 57
Span 40 31 33 31
Mean ages based on profiles weighted by US 1985–89 survival rates
Consumption 40.6 40.4 41.5 45.3
Labor income 37.9 42.7 42.4 44.4
Differences 2.7 −2.3 −0.9 0.9