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The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167205
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The income distribution in the UK: A picture of advantage and disadvantage
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2015
is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418989
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The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2015
is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500333
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Measuring income risk
Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126475
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Measuring Income Risk
Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733210
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Measuring Income Risk
Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963611
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682961
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World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959664
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003
inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simpli?es the calculations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260665
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New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John - 2007
Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of ?poverty? and inequality? and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260927