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The poor and the poorest, fifty years on

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; Searle, … - 2014

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

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The distribution of wages in transition countries

Newell, Andrew - 2001

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem...

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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence

Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...

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The distribution of wages in Poland, 1992 - 2002

Newell, Andrew (contributor); … - 2005

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces contracting it. The result was a relatively constant level of inequality. Privatisation was the...

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What really happened to British inequality in the early 20th century? : evidence from national household expenditure surveys 1890-1961

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2017

We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to 1961, some of which we recovered and digitised. After adjusting for differences in scope and sampling, we find little change in inequality among worker households over the period...

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The household budget survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew - 2018

We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...

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Latin American household budget surveys 1913-1970 and what they tell us about economic inequality among households

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Lanata Briones, Cecilia; … - 2018

The article reports an analysis of the findings of a search for household budget surveys for Latin America for the period from the earliest surveys to the late 1960s. Over one hundred studies were located. References to these surveys are available at...

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Inequality among European working households, 1890-1960

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2018

In this article we map, for the first time, the time-path of the size distribution of income among working class households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household expenditure surveys. Many are not representative of the...

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Overcrowding in British cities in 1904

Gazeley, Ian (contributor); Newell, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

. -- Poverty ; rent ; overcrowding ; Scotland ; 1904 ; Bowley …

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The end of destitution

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009

that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary … poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of … corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate …

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