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 …

years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …

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 …