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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018
This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
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Social inequality and class radicalism in France and Britain
Gallie, Duncan - 1983
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Social inequality
Kriesberg, Louis - 1979
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On English pygmies and giants : the physical stature of English youth in the late-18th and early-19th centuries
Komlos, John - 2005
The physical stature of lower- and upper-class English youth are compared to one another and to their European and North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16. The poverty-stricken English children were shorter for...
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Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth : does segregation affect educational achievement?
Otero, Gabriel; Carranza, Rafael; Contreras Guajardo, Dante - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 1, pp. 617-641
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Inequality and the Covid crisis in the United Kingdom
Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Cribb, Jonathan - 2022
standards, mental health, and wealth in the UK. The pandemic has pushed up inequalities on several dimensions. School closures … expanded welfare system meant that, if anything, disposable income inequality fell. Rising house prices have benefited people … in particular around the middle of the wealth distribution. In the longer term, lower work experience for the less …
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Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK : 2022
Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Wernham, Thomas; Xu, Xiaowei - 2022
different groups in the UK, and the consequences that these changes have for income inequality and for measures of deprivation … and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK …
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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
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Class diversity and youth volunteering in the United Kingdom : applying Bourdieu's habitus and cultural capital
Dean, Jon - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 45 (2016), pp. 95-113
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The economic benefits of volunteering and social class
Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, John; Mantovan, Noemi - 2019
A theory that the economic benefits of volunteering are contingent on social class (as defined by similarities in labour market situation) is tested using seven waves of longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Study gathered between 1996 and 2008 and fixed-effects models. Volunteering...
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