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. Empirical evidence supporting our arguments is provided using data from the …

We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a non- stationary model of intertemporal choice … environment is used to show the robustness of the method for decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the … changes in income risk in Britain across the in- equality growth period from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. We document …

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. Empirical evidence supporting our arguments is provided using data from the …