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In this paper we provide evidence on how the UK government’s welfarereforms since 1998 have affected the material well-being of children in lowincomefamilies. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership ofdurable goods for low- and higher-income families between the...
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Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
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revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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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 … matters for poverty – with the macropicture — that there’s no strong link. We then go on to identify whichhousehold and …
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We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...
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This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A …
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The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … poverty are likely to be small. In order to keep on tracktowards the goal of halving child poverty by 2010, further …
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The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a holistic understanding of the processes that influence the economic resources of older people. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining...
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limited to standardeconomic measures of poverty based on incomes or expenditures,but also include trends in selected … thepopulation is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen,joblessness has increased, school enrolment has dropped andgeneral …
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welfare to work, but that further policies are needed if the US is toalso to do a better job of reducing child poverty.[...] …
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