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Why rising tides don't lift all boats?
 — an explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain
Author(s)Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Carol Propper
Corporate AuthorESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science
PublisherSTICERD, London, 2001
Pages44 pp (CASEpaper 46)
SourceCentre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE.
KeywordsPoverty ; Unemployment ; Mathematical models ; Statistical relations.
AnnotationThis paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great Britain. The authors derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the economic cycle. Analysing the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-1996, is possible to square the micro evidence - that unemployment matters for policy - with the macro picture - that there is no strong link. They identify which household and individual characteristics are associated with whether an individual's poverty risk is vulnerable to the economic cycle. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-010319207 B
ClassmarkW6: WH6: 3LM: 3YH

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