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Definition of equality and framework for measurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement
Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007
In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151096
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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement
Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007
In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151117
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Definition of equality and framework for measurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement
Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007
In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201214
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Foundations for measuring equality: A discussion paper for the Equalities Review
Burchardt, Tania - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2006
The Equalities Review is an independent panel set up by the UK government in 2005 to investigate the persistence of social inequalities and to make recommendations for the development of a unified Commission for Equality and Human Rights. This paper was originally written for the Review. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201226
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Developing and agreeing a capability list in the British context: What can be learnt from social survey data on ‘rights’?
Vizard, Polly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2010
The paper examines what can be learnt about the 'valuation' of freedoms and opportunities (or capabilities) using a general population social survey data source on values. On the assumption that rights can be understood as protecting underlying critical freedoms and opportunities, social survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201240
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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement
Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007
In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201260
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One man's rags are another man's riches: Identifying adaptive preferences using panel data
Burchardt, Tania - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004
One of the motivations frequently cited by Sen and Nussbaum for moving away from a utility metric towards a capabilities framework is a concern about adaptive preferences or conditioned expectations. If utility is related to the satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797328
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Income Dynamics and the Life Cycle
Rigg, John A.; Sefton, Tom - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004
This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151118
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The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty
Jenkins, Stephen P; Kerm, Philippe Van - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2013
The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640483
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The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty
Jenkins, Stephen P; Kerm, Philippe Van - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2013
The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627948