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Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK : 2022
Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Wernham, Thomas; Xu, Xiaowei - 2022
different groups in the UK, and the consequences that these changes have for income inequality and for measures of deprivation … and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278883
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On the Decomposition of Polarization Indices: Illustrations with Chinese and Nigerian Household Surveys
Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the … even if inequality has increased sharply during the last two decades, the pure polarization component was remained constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015267
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A Note on Generalized Transfers Principle with Reduced-Form Social Welfare Functions
Beaud, Mickael; Mussard, Stéphane - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2011
In most welfare analyses, especially in the literature on normative inequality measurement, it is a commonplace to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643107
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Pro-poor Growth in Andean Countries
Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012
This paper studies the pro-poor growth in the Latino American Andean countries. We first present different definitions of pro-poorness and the related methods in order to generate the statistically robust results for classes of pro-poor measures. Also, we present the non anonymous pro-poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551394
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Inequality and Debt in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Ravenna, Federico; Vincent, Nicolas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014
We propose a DSGE model with income heterogeneity to help discriminate across competing explanations of the cross-sectional divergence in debt-to-income ratios in US data. We show that for a DSGE model to be consistent with the data, the divergence in income growth should not be anticipated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752084
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Partial Multidimensional Inequality Orderings
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality … multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008630017
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Seven key facts about UK living standards
Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom - 2024
What has happened to average incomes, inequality, poverty, jobs and pay since 2009 and since 2019? How does the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552653
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The state of education : what awaits the next government?
Farquharson, Christine; McKendrick, Andrew; Ridpath, Nick; … - 2024
In this report, we analyse the current state of the education system in England and set out the key challenges that the next government will inherit. This is not just a tale of despair. Compared with many other developed countries, England's education system does well in terms of student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552665
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The gender gap in pension saving
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; O'Brien, Laurence - 2023
In this report, we document differences in pension incomes and pension saving between men and women in the UK, and analyse the drivers behind these differences. In particular, we examine two different 'gender pension gaps'. First is the gap in average private and state pension incomes between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233173
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The cost of living crisis : a pre-Budget briefing
Cribb, Jonathan; Joyce, Robert; Karjalainen, Heidi; … - 2023
The recent surge in inflation, driven by spectacular increases in energy prices, has driven sharp falls in household living standards, huge government intervention to try to mitigate it, and serious policy headaches. As such it continues to be the backdrop behind many of the most pressing issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233233