Introduction: Numbers of claimants of disability benefits have seen a sharp rise, with reforms introduced to reduce this. Sweden and the UK have introduced reforms to increase conditionality for disability benefits (reduced generosity and stricter eligibility) whereas Denmark has pursued a more...

Background There are wide differences in health between places in the UK with economic inequalities potentially underlying these differences. Previous regeneration initiatives have failed to alleviate these disparities. Preston, a relatively deprived city in the North West of England, has...

The aim of this paper is to examine educational inequalities in the risk of non-employment among people with illnesses and how they vary between European countries with different welfare state characteristics. In doing so, the paper adds to the growing literature on welfare states and social...

We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is...

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...