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Keeping up or falling behind? The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty

Sutherland, Holly; Hancock, Ruth; Hills, John; … - ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, Institute … - 2008

Each year, the Government decides how much to raise benefits and tax allowances. In the UK the basis for these upratings is rarely debated, yet has major long-term consequences for the relative living standards of different groups as well as for the public finances. This paper considers the...

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Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting? A multi-survey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain

Hancock, Ruth; Morciano, Marcello; Pudney, Stephen; … - 2013

We compare three major UK surveys, BHPS, FRS and ELSA, in terms of the picture they give of the relationship between disability and receipt of the Attendance Allowance (AA) benefit. Using the different disability indicators available in each survey, we estimate a model in which probabilities of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331227

Estimating the impact of a policy reform on welfare participation: the 2001 extension to the minimum income guarantee for UK pensioners

Pudney, Stephen; Zantomio, Francesca; Hancock, Ruth - 2006

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Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting? A multi-survey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain

Hancock, Ruth; Morciano, Marcello; Pudney, Stephen; … - ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, Institute … - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934991

Estimating the impact of a policy reform on welfare participation: the 2001 extension to the minimum income guarantee for UK pensioners

Pudney, Stephen; Zantomio, Francesca; Hancock, Ruth - ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, Institute … - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003471

Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting? A multi-survey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain

Hancock, Ruth; Morciano, Marcello; Pudney, Stephen; … - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324311

Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting? : a multi-survey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain

Hancock, Ruth; Morciano, Marcello; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196026

Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting? : a multi-survey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain

Hancock, Ruth; Morciano, Marcello; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2013 - This version: 2 May 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741256

Accounting for housing in poverty analysis

Mullan, Killian; Sutherland, Holly; Zantomio, Francesca - 2009

The treatment of housing in the definition of income used to measure poverty makes a big difference to who is counted as poor. Both the Before Housing Costs (BHC) and After Housing Costs (AHC) measures in current use in the UK pose problems. We compare BHC and AHC income with an alternative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331638

A comparison of earnings measures from longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys: evidence from the UK

Francesconi, Marco; Sutherland, Holly; Zantomio, Francesca - 2009

This paper compares earnings data from the BHPS with those collected in the FRS, contrasting two different points in time (1995/96 and 2003/04), allowing us to assess the possible extent of differential attrition in the BHPS data. We perform non-parametric tests of equality at the centre of the...

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