Burgess, Simon and Gardiner, Karen and Propper, Carol (2001) Why rising tides don't lift all boats: an explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain. CASEpaper, CASE/46. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great Britain. We 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 for 1991-96, we are able to square the micro evidence - that unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household and individual characteristics are associated with whether an individual's poverty risk is vulnerable to the economic cycle.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Additional Information: | © 2001 Simon M Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Sets: | Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) Research centres and groups > Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2008 10:00 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2014 15:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6438 |
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