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Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of SocialExclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

correlates of adult disadvantage. For males, in particular,evidence of childhood aggression is also a consistent and fairly …

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Disability and disadvantage: Selection, onset, and duration effects

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled personsof working-age using data from the British … Household Panel Survey. We arguethat there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: preexistingdisadvantage …

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Continuity and Change in Pathways to Young AdultDisadvantage: Results from a British Birth Cohort

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in … disadvantage tosubsequent adult disadvantage and pay particular attention to whether thepathways involved or the responsiveness to … associated with a wide range of adult disadvantage for both men andwomen, and the specific antecedents, that show fewer but …

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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement:Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood thatcommences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Studyto examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood. Firstly,...

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Urban Social Exclusion in Transitional China

Li, Bingqin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not onlyinclude restricted participation by the “underclass” in urban life, but also thedeprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In addition, thepaper describes how the character of urban social exclusion...

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Neighbourhood Management and the Future of UrbanAreas

Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This paper is about low-income neighbourhoods, their organisation andmanagement. It is not a study in deprivation, but is about problem-solving,about the reforms in delivery underway in Britain, about long run attempts tochange neighbourhood conditions and environments, about the central role...

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Individual Choice and Social Exclusion

Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Why is social exclusion a problem? What about ‘voluntary’ social exclusion –when an individual chooses to exclude him or herself from the wider society?Brain Barry has addressed these questions in a recent CASE book, arguing thatsocial exclusion, voluntary or involuntary, offends against...

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‘Neighbourhood Effects’:Can we measure them and does it matter?

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Renewed interest in disadvantaged neighbourhoods is generating increasingresearch activity. Current work includes qualitative community studies andquantitative investigations of area effects on individual outcomes. This papercriticises the contribution of area effects research to date....

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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz LabourMarket: Some Implications for the National PovertyReduction Strategy

Bernabè, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper investigates the overlap between work and labour market status andidentifies those groups at risks of 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...

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Is Targeting Deprived Areas an Effective Means to ReachPoor People? An assessment of one rationale for areabasedfunding programmes

Tunstall, Rebecca; Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK.One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Areadeprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviewsthe different results produced by these indices. It then examines...

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