Fewer than one half of Britain's lone mothers are in paid employment. Their employment rates are low relative to those of other mothers and fell during the 1980's. The most commonly-cited explanations for the low employment rates are disincentives provided by the benefit system, and a lack of...

This paper provides new evidence about income mobility and poverty dynamics in 1990s Britain using data from the first four waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). After describing our data and definitions used (Section 2), we document the degree and pattern of income mobility...

This paper uses kernel density estimation on Current Population Survey data from the United States and Family Expenditure Survey data from the United Kingdom to describe the distribution of household size-adjusted real income in 1979 and how it changed over the next decade. It confirms previous...

"Inverse Generalized Lorenz" (IGL) curves of distributions of poverty gaps provide (i) succinct graphical summaries of the Incidence, Intensity and Inequality dimensions of poverty, and (ii) a means for checking for unanimous poverty orderings according to all "generalized poverty gap" poverty...

We provide new evidence about what happens to people's incomes when their or their parents' marital union dissolves, using longitudinal data from waves 1-4 of the British Household Panel Survey. Marital splits are associated with substantial declines in real income for separating wives and...

We investigate the nature of child poverty in Britain, adding a longitudinal perspective to cross-sectional pictures such as provided by previous research. Using panel data from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse poverty over a six year interval (1991-6). We provide information about...

This paper is about income and poverty dynamics and their socioeconomic correlates. The first half of the paper aims to establish some of the salient facts for Britain, applying the pioneering methods of Bane and Ellwood (1986). Important for poverty dynamics are changes in labour earnings from...

This document provides information about a set of derived variables to accompany BHPS waves 1-7. The variables, available for each wave, are estimates of current household net income and annual household net income and some of their components, together with variables which classify persons...

The report examines the dynamics of lone mothers' income packages. It complements analysis of the dynamics of private income sources, namely maintenance income (child support from the non-resident father) and labour earnings, with analysis of the receipt of cash social security benefits, namely...