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Income Dynamics and the Life Cycle
Rigg, John A.; Sefton, Tom - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004
This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A person¿s age and family circumstances ¿ the factors that shape their life cycle ¿ affect the likelihood of experiencing key life events, such as partnership formation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151118
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Wealth accumulation in Great Britain 1995-2005: The role of house prices and the life cycle
Bastagli, Francesca; Hills, John - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012
This paper examines trends in the distribution of household wealth in Great Britain from 1995 to 2005 using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The data show that wealth is very unevenly distributed and reveal a widening absolute gap over the period between wealthier households and those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607929
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Labour's Record on Cash Transfers, Poverty, Inequality and the Lifecycle 1997 - 2010
Hills, John - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2013
Cash transfers (benefits and tax credits) are crucial to the way that inequalities develop over time. This paper looks at how Labour's aims, policies and achievements on poverty and inequality related to its reforms of and spending on cash transfers. - Labour's aims for poverty and inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685950
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Wealth accumulation in Great Britain 1995-2005: The role of house prices and the life cycle
Bastagli, Francesca; Hills, John - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012
This paper examines trends in the distribution of household wealth in Great Britain from 1995 to 2005 using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The data show that wealth is very unevenly distributed and reveal a widening absolute gap over the period between wealthier households and those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692140
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Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to public services in deprived areas
Duffy, Bobby - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2000
services themselves being of a lower quality. This paper looks at the use, importance and satisfaction ratings of a range of … satisfaction is higher in deprived areas. This finding may be at least partly due to the expectations of public services among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201164
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One man's rags are another man's riches: Identifying adaptive preferences using panel data
Burchardt, Tania - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004
satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual's previous experience of deprivation or … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797328