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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...
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experiencing key life events, such as partnership formation, having children, or retirement; this in turn affects their probability …
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This paper solves an empirically parameterised model of life-cycle consumption which extends the precautionary savings models of Carroll (1997), and Deaton (1991), to allow for uncollaterized borrowing and default. In case households choose to default: (i) their access to credit markets is...
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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...
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location intention at retirement using a recent data set on migrants currently living in France. We found that the migrant …
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just those at the point of retirement, this approach can provide additional insights on the efficacy of pension systems in … individuals above the 60% relative poverty threshold throughout retirement. Our simulations suggest that the gradual negative … lengthening of the time spent in receipt of retirement benefits. The consumption smoothing function of state pensions has declined …
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pension benefits through retirement) calculated using more realistic labour market assumptions. These measures are used to …
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This article discusses the implications of the decline of National Insurance in Britain, witnessed by its declining share of social security spending and steady dilution of the ‘contributory principle’ on which it was originally based. This decline is not accidental: under governments of the...
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trend is that the retirement incomes drawn from the public pension systems are on the decline, the changes are likely to … their working career if they want to avoid greater risks of poverty during retirement. …
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across EU Member States and identifies policy initiatives that would encourage more flexible and later retirement. The … countries, close to one-half of those of 50 and over are either unemployed or inactive, with reliance either on early retirement … retirement age and this is likely to induce older workers to work longer. There is already some evidence that the effective …
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