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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends
Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870043
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A Look at Real Housing Prices and Incomes: Some Implications for Housing Affordability and Quality
Gyourko, Joseph E.; Tracy, Joseph - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
affordability forhouseholds at the bottom of the income distribution. Real house prices at the lower end of the price distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870045
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Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation inthe UK Graduate Earnings Premium
Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the wholepopulation of 1993 leavers from the ‘old’ universities of the UK toinvestigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Amongother results, we find that there are significant differences in theoccupational earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695283
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Talking to families in East London
Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
The first round of interviews with 100 families living intwo East London neighbourhoods has unearthed newinformation on problems and strengths in these areas,families’ coping strategies, and area change. Families’dissatisfaction with the areas was high, compared with thenational average. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845700
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A Profile of Poverty in Tajikistan
Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remoteand poorest of the independent states of the … independence and the cessation of the civilwar. The picture that emerges is of a population facing severe economic,physical and … psycho-social stress.Over 95 percent of the population are living below the minimumconsumption basket, four out of five are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733211
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Include Me Out? The New Politics of Place and Poverty
Kleinman, Mark - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
London is being successfully regenerated at present, yet poverty andsocial exclusion are increasing. The paradox is … explained in part by theopenness of the London economy and the lack of basic skills of asubstantial minority of the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756561
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CASE Annual Report 2009
Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
[...]Our research on seven ‘weak marketcities’ in five European countriessupported by the Joseph RowntreeFoundation was completed and theresulting book, Phoenix Cities by AnnePower, Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler,will be published in March 2010.However, we were delighted that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008785035
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PLACES APART?
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
‘Places Apart?’ is the first report of CASE’s study of disadvantaged areas. The study aims to establishand explain the current direction of change in the poorest areas in the country, where social exclusionis concentrated. Are such areas recovering or getting worse ? And how are they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845683
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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866
Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
and overall income available to households within thedisplaced area. This information is used to produce a … Poverty.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870937
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Modelling Vulnerability in the UK
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within thecontext of income mobility of the … have the greatest impact on consumption, incomparison to shocks to the income stream. Quantile-specific estimates … revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871008