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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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Tony Atkinson and his legacy

Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense, rejecting any sub-field labelling of his interests and...

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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour : a Shapley decomposition

Bargain, Olivier - 2009

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

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Trends in individual income growth : measurement methods and British evidence

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2011

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...

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The income distribution in the UK : a picture of advantage and disadvantage

Jenkins, Stephen - 2015

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

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Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014

This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...

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Does financial deregulation boost top incomes? : evidence from the Big Bang

Tanndal, Julia; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to...

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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK

Jenkins, Stephen - 2021

UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics, and the academic research that influenced them, and...

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Getting the measure of inequality

Jenkins, Stephen - 2022

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality - that it has changed little over the last 30 years - and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality...

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