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The income distribution in the UK: A picture of advantage and disadvantage
Jenkins, Stephen P - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2015
is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170255
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Social Housing and Social Exclusion 2000-2011
Tunstall, Rebecca - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and private renters on measures of income, employment, education, health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645883
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Social Housing and Social Exclusion 2000-2011
Tunstall, Rebecca - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and private renters on measures of income, employment, education, health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636823
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Disabled People’s Financial Histories: Uncovering the disability wealth-penalty
McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014
It is well established that on average disabled people and the households in which they live face greater financial disadvantage in terms of income than their counterparts. What is less well understood is how they fare in terms of their wealth status. In this paper we use data from two large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760491
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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
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 were selective. 'Equality of opportunity' was the stated aim, rather than … groups. - Overall income inequality was broadly flat, comparing the start and end of Labour's term in office. But differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685950
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Fiscal costs of climate mitigation programmes in the UK: A challenge for social policy?
Gough, Ian; Marden, Sam - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
This paper asks whether the policies and programmes enacted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will compete with other goals of public policy, in particular social policy goals. The Climate Change Act 2008 has set the UK some of the most demanding targets in the world: to reduce GHG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201189
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Public and Private Welfare Activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1999
Smithies, Rachel - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005
This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and private sector welfare provision in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. Five sectors - education, health, personal social services, housing, and income maintenance and social security - are examined over three time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797322
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Fiscal costs of climate mitigation programmes in the UK: A challenge for social policy?
Gough, Ian; Marden, Sam - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
This paper asks whether the policies and programmes enacted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will compete with other goals of public policy, in particular social policy goals. The Climate Change Act 2008 has set the UK some of the most demanding targets in the world: to reduce GHG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148909
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Definition of equality and framework for measurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement
Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007
Minister established the Equalities Review, an independent, high-level, investigation of the causes of persistent inequality … translating capability theory into a practical measurement tool in the context of measuring inequality in Britain in the 21st … capabilities (this is considered in more detail in CASE/121), a measurement framework for monitoring trends in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151096
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Socio-Economic Status and Child Behaviour: Evidence from a contemporary UK cohort
Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007
This paper examines whether and how socio-economic status is associated with children's behavioural development in today's children. Using a large cohort of English children born in the early 1990s we find significant social inequalities in several dimensions of child behaviour at age 7. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151108