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Inequality and the COVID-19 crisis in the United Kingdom
Brundell, Richard; Dias, Mónica Costa; Waters, Tom; … - In: Annual review of economics 14 (2022), pp. 607-636
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428432
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Inequality and the Covid crisis in the United Kingdom
Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Cribb, Jonathan - 2022
We review the effects on the Covid-19 pandemic on inequalities in education, the labour market, household living standards, mental health, and wealth in the UK. The pandemic has pushed up inequalities on several dimensions. School closures particular disrupted the learning of poorer children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802900
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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11
Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574887
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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11
Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016 - This version: 15 December 2016
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trendwas stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591489
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Tony Atkinson and his legacy
Aaberge, Rolf; Bourguignon, François; Brandolini, Andrea; … - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 63 (2017) 3, pp. 411-444
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820030
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Tony Atkinson and his legacy
Aaberge, Rolf; Bourguignon, François; Brandolini, Andrea; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967165
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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes
Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021
We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802873
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11
Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595900
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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics : snapshots of who is poor in one period provide an incomplete picture of poverty
Biewen, Martin - 2014
A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422488