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Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate

Micklewright, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

poverty, analysis of children's living standards, state versus federal responsibilities, welfare reform and the emphasis on …

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Individual choice and social exclusion

Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Why is social exclusion a problem? What about ‘voluntary’ social exclusion – when an individual chooses to exclude him or herself from the wider society? Brain Barry has addressed these questions in a recent CASE book, arguing that social exclusion, voluntary or involuntary, offends...

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Helter skelter: families, disabled children and the benefit system

Preston, Gabrielle - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing … provide financial security for families who are susceptible to high levels of poverty and social exclusion? This qualitative … report outlines issues that must be addressed if reduce poverty amongst disabled children is to be reduced. …

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Child farm labour: theory and evidence

Bhalotra, Sonia; Heady, Chris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …

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Policies for mixed communities: faith-based displacement activity?

Cheshire, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

enhancing. Thus, policies for mixed neighborhoods treat the symptoms rather than the causes of poverty. Efforts to improve …

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Social housing and social exclusion 2000-2011

Tunstall, Rebecca - London School of Economics (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...

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The social protection of rural workers in the construction industry in urban China

Li, Bingqin; Peng, Huamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90% of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrants work in construction. The construction industry is not only particularly important, but is also different from other...

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Urban social exclusion in transitional China

Li, Bingqin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not only include restricted participation by the ¿underclass¿ in urban life, but also the deprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In addition, the paper describes how the character of urban social exclusion...

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Social exclusion, social isolation and the distribution of income

Barry, Brian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

Social exclusion can be distinguished from social isolation, defining social isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of an individual or group) in a society's mainstream institutions, while reserving 'social exclusion' for the subset of cases in which social isolation occurs for...

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Intergenerational and life-course transmission of social exclusion in the 1970 British cohort study

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This study used data from the British Cohort Study to examine the relationships between childhood background experiences and a variety of indicators of adult well-being. Similar to an earlier study that analyses the National Child Development Study, we use a rich array of childhood background...

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