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CASEpaper

The relationship between poverty and inequality: Concepts and measurement

Lin Yang

This paper defines and maps the variety of different concepts and measures of poverty and inequality that have been developed and used in research. These reflect differing views of what constitutes a minimum acceptable q...Read more...

21 November 2017

SPCC Research Report

The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in London (2007-2013)

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Eleni Karagiannaki, Jack Cunliffe, Stephanie Thomson, Chris Grollman and Ruth Lupton

In this report we examine changing patterns of inequality in London over the period 2007-2013. We examine how the distribution of key economic outcomes - including income and wealth, employment and unemployment, earnings...Read more...

23 March 2015

SPCC Research Report

Falling Behind, Getting Ahead: The Changing Structure of Inequality in the UK, 2007-2013

John Hills, Jack Cunliffe, Polina Obolenskaya and Eleni Karagiannaki

This report looks in detail at inequality within the UK, 2007-2013, which groups have gained and lost - comparing men and women, and housing tenure, region, ethnicity, and disability as well as age group. Detailed examin...Read more...

23 March 2015

CASEpaper

Beyond Radicalism and Resignation: The Competing Logics for Public Participation in Policy Decisions

Rikki Dean

From the World Bank to the Occupy Movement, support for greater citizen participation in social policy decisions has become ubiquitous. This paper argues that existing typologies of participation are problematic in that ...Read more...

12 December 2014

CASEpaper

Social Housing and Social Exclusion 2000-2011

Rebecca Tunstall

By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and priv...Read more...

1 July 2011

CASEpaper

The Social Protection of Rural Workers in the Construction Industry in Urban China

Bingqin Li and Huamin Peng

The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90% of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrants work in construction. The construction industr...Read more...

November 2006

CASEpaper

Helter Skelter: Families, disabled children and the benefit system

Gabrielle Preston

Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disa...Read more...

February 2005

CASEpaper

Urban Social Exclusion in Transitional China

Bingqin Li

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not only include restricted participation by the ¿underclass¿ in urban life, but also the deprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In...Read more...

March 2004

CASEpaper

Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study

Wendy Sigle-Rushton

This study used data from the British Cohort Study to examine the relationships between childhood background experiences and a variety of indicators of adult well-being. Similar to an earlier study that analyses the Nati...Read more...

February 2004

CASEpaper

Individual Choice and Social Exclusion

Julian Le Grand

Why is social exclusion a problem? What about ¿voluntary¿ social exclusion ¿ when an individual chooses to exclude him or herself from the wider society? Brain Barry has addressed these questions in a recent CASE book, a...Read more...

December 2003

CASEpaper

Capital and the Determinants of Poverty and Social Exclusion

David Piachaud

Types of capital which determine the ability of individuals, of communities and of nations to avoid poverty and social exclusion are analysed. This analysis draws on changing explanations of economic growth and the recen...Read more...

September 2002

CASEpaper

Outsider and Insider Expertise: The response of residents of deprived neighbourhoods to an academic definition of social exclusion

Liz Richardson and Julian Le Grand

The aim of this paper is to compare academic interpretations of the term social exclusion with the understanding of people with direct experience of the phenomenon. A pre-selected group of residents of deprived neighbour...Read more...

April 2002

CASEpaper

Social Exclusion and Children: A European view for a US debate

John Micklewright

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. ...Read more...

February 2002

CASEpaper

The Roles of Schooling and Educational Qualifications in the Emergence of Adult Social Exclusion

John Hobcraft

From a detailed analysis of the roles of childhood experience, schooling and educational qualifications in the emergence of adult social exclusion, two key patterns emerge: Educational qualifications show a strong relati...Read more...

December 2000

CASEpaper

Homelessness and Vulnerable Young People: A social audit of KeyChange Charity's supported accommodation

Megan Ravenhill

Homelessness is still an ever-present problem in many towns and cities in the UK today. This paper is part of a more in-depth study of homelessness and social exclusion. It presents the results of a small-scale study, wh...Read more...

March 2000

CASEpaper

Social Exclusion and the Future of Cities

Anne Power and William Julius Wilson

In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving away from the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behind concentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power's paper focuses o...Read more...

February 2000

CASEpaper

Schools, Education and Social Exclusion

Jo Sparkes

A review of research evidence suggests that low levels of educational attainment are crucial in generating and sustaining social exclusion. Test scores at school are the most effective predictor of many adult outcomes. S...Read more...

November 1999

CASEpaper

Childhood Poverty, Early Motherhood and Adult Social Exclusion

John Hobcraft and Kathleen E Kiernan

Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the political agenda. The key new issue addressed in this research is the relative importance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlates of outcomes...Read more...

July 1999

CASEpaper

Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the area bases of social exclusion

Howard Glennerster, Ruth Lupton, Philip Noden and Anne Power

Are-based policies have become a significant part of the new Labour Government's approach to tackling social exclusion. This paper reviews the long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make a significant ...Read more...

March 1999

CASEpaper

Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion: Influences and Childhood Poverty, Family Disruption and Contact with the Police

John Hobcraft

This study uses data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), a longitudinal study of children born in 1958, to examine the following questions. How far is social exclusion and disadvantage transmitted from pare...Read more...

November 1998

CASEpaper

Social Exclusion, Social Isolation and the Distribution of Income

Brian Barry

Social exclusion can be distinguished from social isolation, defining social isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of an individual or group) in a society's mainstream institutions, while reserving 'social ex...Read more...

August 1998

CASEpaper

Include Me Out? The New Politics of Place and Poverty (published in 'Policy Studies', 21:1, April 2000)

Mark Kleinman

London is being successfully regenerated at present, yet poverty and social exclusion are increasing. The paradox is explained in part by the openness of the London economy and the lack of basic skills of a substantial m...Read more...

August 1998

CASEpaper

Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity

Anthony B. Atkinson and John Hills

The relationships between employment, education, opportunity, social exclusion and poverty are central to current policy debates. Atkinson argues that the concepts of poverty, unemployment and social exclusion are closel...Read more...

January 1998

Development Economics Paper

Inequality, Unemployment and Contemporary Europe

Amartya Sen

Inequality of incomes can differ substantially from inequality in other 'spaces' such as well-being, freedom, health, longevity, and quality of life. Given the massive sclae of unemployment in contemporary European econo...Read more...

November 1997