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Public policy and inequalities of choice and autonomy
Burchardt, Tania; Evans, Martin; Holder, Holly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2013
-collected data for the UK. 'Choice' has been promoted in social policy across many developed welfare states, often on the grounds … autonomy should be addressed - poverty, ill health and geographical inequality - because they place significant restrictions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670460
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Mapping and measuring the distribution of household wealth: A cross-country analysis
Cowell, Frank A; Karagiannaki, Eleni; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012
wealth households but high relative measures of wealth inequality. Italian households hold very little debt and are much more … of wealth inequality such as the Gini coefficient even though absolute gaps between high and low wealth households have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592971
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Mapping and measuring the distribution of household wealth: A cross-country analysis
Cowell, Frank A; Karagiannaki, Eleni; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012
wealth households but high relative measures of wealth inequality. Italian households hold very little debt and are much more … of wealth inequality such as the Gini coefficient even though absolute gaps between high and low wealth households have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692136
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Accounting for cross-country differences in wealth inequality
Cowell, Frank A; Karagiannaki, Eleni; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2013
wealth and levels of household wealth inequality. The findings of the paper suggest that the biggest share of cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627949
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Accounting for cross-country differences in wealth inequality
Cowell, Frank A; Karagiannaki, Eleni; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2013
wealth and levels of household wealth inequality. The findings of the paper suggest that the biggest share of cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640484
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Piketty in the long run
Cowell, Frank A - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2015
economic factors on inequality in the long run, we use the concept of an equilibrium distribution. However the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168925
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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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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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The impact of inheritance on the distribution of wealth: Evidence from the UK
Karagiannaki, Eleni - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
inequality. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey we find that the period 1995-2005 was a period of substantial … growth in net worth and of a substantial decrease in wealth inequality recorded in the survey. The main driver behind both …-inherited wealth. This meant that inherited wealth accounted for part of the observed inequality of net worth in 2005. However, some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201160