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This paper explores changes in the relationship betweenrace, income, and criminal victimization over time. Interestin … income earned by the top 5 percentof American families increased from 15.3 percent to 20.1 percent.Families in the bottom …
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whilepoor ones grew rich. We question their analysis with regard to both of their proxiesfor pre-modern income, namely … (butnot significant) correlation between pre-modern and contemporary income. Second,we show that their measure of population …
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find that “singlestage”indices – those that are applied directly to a sample from amultivariate income distribution … first “discretised” into income intervals andthen a transition matrix or other tool is applied – may be robust if thefirst …
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It is worth distinguishing social exclusion from social isolation, definingsocial isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of anindividual or group) in a society’s mainstream institutions, whilereserving ‘social exclusion’ for the subset of cases in which socialisolation occurs...
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) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues … proposesa framework for modelling household income dynamics. it emphasisesthe role of household formation and dissolution, and …, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …
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incomes and giving benefits in cash andkind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. The first attempt to do … in kind are treated as income.[...] …
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. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining the income mobility experienced by older people living in Britain and …. The comparative perspective yields insights about the different income experience of older people in the two markedly … different welfare regimes. Results show that old-age income mobility is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, and that in …
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This paper investigates relative or absolute happiness.
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One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief period of time, some highly publicized research suggested...
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