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procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for … the co-resident family members and with widowhood among women. Unemployment during working life is also associated with … required to encourage flexible living arrangements in old age, as well as a greater protection from unemployment during working …
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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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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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economic expansion and low unemployment; and, (b) why households hold simultaneously high cost debt and low return assets. …
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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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