Changing Fortunes

Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvStephen P. Jenkins,London School of Economics) Jenkins, Stephen P. (Professor of Economic and Social Policy,JENKINS,Jenkins

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Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given year and compares those numbers with the corresponding statistics from the previous year. Missing from snapshot pictures like these is information about whether the people who were poor one year are the same people who are poor the following year; and the circumstances of those with middle-income or top-income origins are not tracked over time. This book fills in the missing information. The author likens Britain's income distribution to a multi-story apartment building with the numbers of residents on the different floors corresponding to the concentration of people at different income levels in any particular year. The poorest are in the basement, the richest are in the penthouse, and the majority somewhere in between. This book assesses how much movement there is between floors, the frequency of moves, whether the distance travelled has been changing over the last two decades, and whether basement dwellers ever reach the penthouse. Using the British Household Panel Survey, which has followed and interviewed the same people annually since 1991, it documents the patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain, shows how they have changed over the last two decades, and explores the reasons why. It draws attention to the relationships between changes in income and changes in other aspects of people's lives - not only in their jobs, earnings, benefits, and credits, but also in the households within which they live (people marry and divorce; children are born). Trends over time are also related to changes in Britain's labour market and the reforms to the tax-benefit system introduced by the Labour government in the late-1990s.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-07-28
Mått162 x 241 x 31 mm
Vikt772 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor430
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199226436

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Stephen P. Jenkins is former Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. He has served as Chair of the Council of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, and as President of the European Society for Population Economics. He is a Research Professor at DIW Berlin and a Research Fellow of IZA Bonn, and was a member of the UK's National Equality Panel that reported in 2010. His research interests are in topics related to the distribution of income, the labour market, and the tax-benefit system. He has published widely in these areas and also on related ones such as longitudinal survey data and statistical methods such as survival analysis. He co-edited The Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford University Press, 2007 (with John Micklewright), and The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (with Bruce Bradbury and John Micklewright).

INTRODUCTION ; 1. Introduction: longitudinal perspectives on income distribution ; PART I. MEASUREMENT AND DATA ; 2. Income over time: measurement issues ; 3. Sources of longitudinal data on income: household panel surveys in context ; 4. The British Household Panel Survey and its income data ; PART II. INCOME MOBILITY ; 5. Income mobility and how it has changed over time ; 6. Transitory variation and volatility in income ; 7. Spaghetti unravelled: a model-based description of differences in income-age trajectories ; PART III. POVERTY DYNAMICS ; 8. Poverty dynamics and how they have changed over time ; 9. Routes into and out of poverty and the role of trigger events ; 10. The length of time spent poor: estimates from hazard regression models ; 11. Modelling low income transitions: estimates from a Markov model ; ENVOI ; 12. Summary and conclusions

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