Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes

In this paper we examine the concept of quot;vulnerabilityquot; within the context of incomemobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UKusing Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Study and find that, of threedifferent types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wideaggregate shocks have the greatest impact on consumption, in comparison to shocksto the income stream

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Year of publication:	[2008]
Authors:	Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra
Other Persons:	Cowell, Frank (contributor)
Publisher:	[2008]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Haushaltseinkommen \| Household income \| Armut \| Poverty \| Schock \| Shock \| Privater Konsum \| Private consumption \| Großbritannien \| United Kingdom \| Privater Haushalt \| Household

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (32 p)
Series:	LSE STICERD Research Paper ; No. 79
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 2006 erstellt
Classification:	H26 - Tax Evasion ; D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; D84 - Expectations; Speculations ; C72 - Noncooperative Games
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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