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poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerablehouseholds in the UK using Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Survey … andfind that, of three different types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocksand economy-wide aggregate shocks … revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …
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local area when growingup, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood.[...] …
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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 pursue an economic approach to analysing poverty. This requires a focus onthe variables that individuals can … demographic andemployment transitions as the driving forces behind changes in poverty. Weconstruct a dataset covering event … demographic and poverty data reasonably well. We investigate theimportant parameters and processes for differences in individuals …
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This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A … experiencing rising, falling, orother income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household PanelSurvey, we analyse the …
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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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differences, forexample, the importance of neighbourhood and ‘service poverty’, andthe need for action against aspects of social …
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Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of … the measurement framework for theEqualities Review. The companion paper discusses the key challengesinvolved in … translating capability theory into a practical measurement tool inthe context of measuring inequality in Britain in the 21st …
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Steering Group on Measurement(CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background papers to assist in thedevelopment of the measurement …), a measurement framework for monitoring trends ininequality, exploring the causes of inequality, and identifying possible …
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