The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … poverty are likely to be small. In order to keep on tracktowards the goal of halving child poverty by 2010, further …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective … income dynamics over the whole life cycle. We find that particular life events are closely associated with either rising or … their probability of experiencing rising, falling, or other income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household …

This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater … income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income … families. The author proposes two simple income averaging devices to redress this effect: averaging the Earned Income Tax …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective … analyse the income trajectories of people at different stages in their lives in order to build a picture of income dynamics … of experiencing rising, falling, or other income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective … analyse the income trajectories of people at different stages in their lives in order to build a picture of income dynamics … of experiencing rising, falling, or other income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …

Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …

immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting … as well. Disposable income inequality and the low-income rate are stagnating, but the trends differ depending on …