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Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this are the significant shift in demand against the...

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You can't always get what you want: the impact of the jobseeker's allowance

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 1996 the UK made major changes to its welfare system for the support of the unemployed with the introduction of the Jobseeker’s Allowance. This tightened the work search requirements needed for eligibility for benefit. It resulted in large flows out of claimant status, but, this paper...

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Can labour supply explain the rise in unemployment and intergroup wage inequality in the OECD?

Wasmer, E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

. Disaggregation by gender is necessary. Endogeneity of participation levels with respect to unemployment is treated in two ways, by … unemployment cannot be rejected. …

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Argentina's crises and the poor, 1995-2002

Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty...

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Why rising tides don't lift all boats: an explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain

Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the economic … unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household …

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