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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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How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics?

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive "synthetic panel" data estimates of poverty dynamics …

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Social class as a moving average

Brynin, Malcolm - 2010

Are social (occupational) classes coherent, distinct entities? While they reflect an underlying reality, they are more fragmented than theory suggests. It is hypothesised that skill mismatches mean that each class includes a substantial proportion of poorly paid people who could be in the class...

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Distributional analysis of the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation in the health gradient measured by biomarkers

Sinha, Kompal; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M.; … - 2018

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation. Adopting a holistic approach to multidimensional deprivation, we construct measures of absolute and relative deprivation and use these measures...

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Multidimensional poverty in Colombia, 1997 - 2010

Diaz, Beatriz Yadira; Salazar, Roberto Carlos Angulo; … - 2013

This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

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A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2019

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on a latent class model. This addresses some of the limitations that affect earlier work in this literature concerning the definition of types, such as partial observability, the...

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Income mobility

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013

We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within and between generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2010

income ; Households Below Average Income ; income distribution ; inequality ; poverty …

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Calibrating a cross-European poverty line

Berthoud, Richard - 2012

How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020

We use data from Wave 9 of UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and the April 2020 Wave of the UKHLS COVID-19 survey to compare measures of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in psychological distress, as measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Wave 9) and at the...

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