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This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic … cycle. Analysing the BritishHousehold Panel Survey for 1991-96, we are able to square the microevidence — that unemployment …
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Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census … neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …
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poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers …. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty MonitoringSurvey, which is the only survey to date that allows a …
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of the term, and the extent and nature of problems it encompasses. Aspectscovered include poverty dynamics …
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Twenty-five years ago, in a small closed-down shop inHighbury, the idea of helping some people into workthrough their own bootstraps was tried out in some ofLondon’s poorest communities. It relied on the motivationand basic willingness to learn of people out of work and inneed. The missing...
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In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media.The term ‘informal sector’ has been used to describe an extremely widespectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common,such as...
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We examine whether unemployment early in an individual’scareer influences her later employment prospects. We use six … yearsof the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohortvariation in unemployment at school-leaving age to identify …
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empirically.The proportion of non-employment (including education, early-retirement andcaring, as well as unemployment) classified …
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As unemployment falls it is often the most disadvantaged unemployed whoget left behind. To identify what works to …
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