revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …

local area when growingup, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood.[...] …

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 …

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 …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A …

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 …

differences, forexample, the importance of neighbourhood and ‘service poverty’, andthe need for action against aspects of social …