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This lecture examines the empirical relationship between economic inequality and
poverty across countries and over time, paying attention to different
measurement issues. It then considers a range of potential mechanisms driving
this relationship and explores policy options.
Eleni Karagiannaki is a Research Fellow at the Centre for
Analysis of Social Exclusion at LSE. Her research focuses on income and wealth
inequality and poverty and socio-economic mobility.
Abigail McKnight is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow
and Associate Director of Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at LSE where
she has worked since 1999. Her research interests include inequality,
poverty, wealth, social mobility and employment policy.
Further information about this event
News Posted: 16 December 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Dr Polina Obolenskaya, Dr Bert Provan and Professor Kitty Stewart are presenting their research at a conference jointly organised by Universities of Paris 1 and Paris 3, together with Policy Network in London and several other institutional partners, on the subject of "Government and Public Services in an Age of Fiscal Consolidation: Comparative Views from France and the United Kingdom".
The programme includes plenary sessions as well as workshops on governance and finance, and sectoral studies (energy, employment, education, housing, and health). A round table on Brexit will close the conference on Saturday 3 December.
News Posted: 21 November 2016 [ Back to the Top]
This event, which coincides with the LSE Research Festival 2016, is part
of a wider LSE celebration of pioneering social scientist Charles Booth, who
died in 1916, and whose original survey into life and labour in London is held
in the LSE Library.
Booth's investigation of poverty in London provides a key example both of
the creative development of social science and of the ways in which research may
be used to have a positive impact on society. The event brings together a group
of scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the substance of Booth's
ideas as well as his broader legacy for the social sciences and for contemporary
social analysis.
The event is free and open to all on a first come first serve basis. If
you wish to register your interest in advance, send an e-mail to inequalities.institute@lse.ac.uk.
The event programme is listed below. Drop in for one or several sessions.
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Session 1: 2.15-3.00pm - Welcome and Introduction: Charles
Booth and the Social Sciences
Speaker: Prof
Mary Morgan (LSE Economic History Dept)
Chair: Prof
Nicola Lacey (LSE Law Dept and International Inequalities
Institute)
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building.
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Session 2: 3.15-4.15 - Economy, Work, Pay, Class - Then and Now
Speakers: Profs Alan
Manning (LSE Economics Dept), Stephen
Machin (LSE Centre for Economic Performance), Fran
Tonkiss (LSE Sociology Dept)
Chair: Prof
Nicola Lacey
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
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4.15-4.45 Coffee break
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Session 3: 4.45-5.45 Housing, Health, Personal Circumstances,
Criminality - Then and Now
Speakers: Dr
Suzi Hall (LSE Cities), Profs Anne
Power (LSE Social Policy Dept, LSE Housing and
Communities), Emily
Grundy (LSE Sociology Dept) and Tim
Newburn (Social Policy Dept)
Chair: Dr
Suki Ali (LSE Sociology Dept)
Venue: Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
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Session 4: 6.00-7.00pm: "The Chain: How Inequality Works"
Speaker: Prof
John Hills (LSE International Inequalities Institute and
Social Policy Dept)
Chair: Prof
Julia Black
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
This lecture will trace some of the ways in which rising inequalities in
income and wealth and the policies associated with them are driving the housing
crisis for those at the margins.
For a map of campus, see here.
News Posted: 24 October 2016 [ Back to the Top]
The government’s grammar schools
plans have been covered widely
with evidence presented
that in practice, academic selection increases educational inequality, and
strengthens the relationship between social background and attainment. In contrast,
plans to change the funding system for
nurseries and pre-schools have received little attention. But these reforms
actually pose a greater threat to social mobility than proposals to expand
grammar schools, argue
Kitty Stewart and
Ludovica Gambaro for the LSE British Politics and Policy
blog.
continue reading
News Posted: 29 September 2016 [ Back to the Top]
All lectures will
be held in Wolfson Theatre, New
Academic Building, LSE.
Maps here
Can the Welfare States survive?
Speaker: Prof Andrew Gamble (Cambridge/
Sheffield)
Tues
27th Sept, 6pm
The Return of the Family? Variation across
post-industrial societies
Speaker: Prof Mary Brinton (Harvard)
Tues 25th Oct, 6pm
Global Capitalism and the Rise of
Inequality: re-embedding (labour) markets and employment relations ?
Speaker: Prof Lane Kenworthy (UC San Diego)
Wed 9th Nov, 6pm
Re-imagining Civil Society Engagement:
in search of social innovation
Speaker: Prof Maurizio Ferrera (Milan)
Wed 23rd Nov, 2pm
News Posted: 22 September 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Three
institutes in LSE are hosting a new
seminar series: the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the
Environment (GRI), the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and
the new International Inequalities Institute (III). It will be chaired by Prof
Ian Gough, Visiting Professor at CASE and Associate at Grantham.
The overlap
between environmental pressures and degradation on the one hand and the ‘social
dimension’ of inequality and human wellbeing on the other hand is of immense
importance but under-researched. There is a yawning gap to be filled by a
coherent, exciting and interdisciplinary research agenda. This series of
seminars will explore and develop that agenda.
The seminars
will be focused in two ways: on global warming and climate change rather than a
wider range of environmental problems, and on the UK and other rich countries -
the ‘welfare states’ of the OECD, roughly the same as and the Kyoto Annex II
countries.
The first six
seminars of the series will take place on:
Thursday 3rd November
2016, 12.00-13.30 with
Prof Ian Gough
link to recording and presentation slides
of this event.
Thursday 1st December 2016,
12.00-13:30 'Carbon and Inequality: from Measurement to Policy' with
Lucas Chancel, Research Fellow New
Prosperity, IDDRI Paris (Sciences Po) and Dario Kenner, Visiting Fellow at the
Global Sustainability Institute based (Anglia Ruskin University)
recording and presentation slides from
this event.
Thursday 16th February 2017
The Health Co-benefits of the low carbon
economy
Professor Paul
Wilkinson, London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene
Can the co-benefits of climate action help to
deliver social equity?
Dr Alison Smith, Environmental Change
Institute, University of Oxford
Can local carbon reduction programmes work
in disadvantaged areas?
Dr Ruth Mayne,
Oxfam GB and Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Sign up for this seminar
Thursday 9th March 2017
Carbon and Time
Low carbon fun?
A time use perspective towards sustainabilityProfessor Angela Druckman (Centre
for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, Universityof Surrey)
The case for a
shorter working week Anna Coote (Principal Fellow at the New Economics
Foundation and the author of 'Time on our Side')
Sign up for this seminar
Thursday 27th April 2017
Would income redistribution result in higher
aggregate emissions?
Lutz Sager, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the
Environment, LSE.
Sign up for this seminar
Thursday 25th May 2017
Postgrowth and Wellbeing
Professor Max
Koch, Lund University and Dr Milena Buchs, University of Leeds
Sign up for this seminar
A sandwich lunch and refreshments are
provided.
News Posted: 22 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
The analysis suggests that the economic divergence between London and
the Northern regions in England continues to grow. The gaps are also
growing in relation to a number of social outcomes, such as education and
health, with improvement in these outcomes in London being in line with economic
conditions in the capital bouncing back to pre-recession levels or beyond while
the North lags behind. But economic growth in London has not resulted in
reduced poverty or inequality. The full paper is available here:
Pulling in the Same Direction? Economic and Social Outcomes in London and the
North of England Since the Recession,
by Polina Obolenskaya, Ruth Lupton and Bert Provan.
News Posted: 02 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
New
findings show a significant demand for accessible housing to rent and buy.
Conducted by LSE Housing and Communities (CASE) and Ipsos MORI, the report,
The
hidden housing market, uncovers a fresh view that challenges assumptions
about the potential for disabled people to buy their own home. The report also
sheds light on the wider appeal of homes that deliver higher quality accessible
features.
Headline findings:
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1.8 million disabled people have an unmet housing need – 580,000 of whom are
of working age (there are 11.6 million disabled people in the UK)
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Of the 1.8 million disabled people needing accessible homes, 56% are home
owners with 39% having incomes in the top half of the income distribution
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19% of the British public would most favour moving to a different property
specifically designed or adapted to enable them to live independently in
later life
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Impact of unmet housing need for accessible housing – disabled people living
in inaccessible homes are four times more likely to be unemployed.
The report also demonstrates some of the profound effects on working age
disabled people of not having their need for accessible housing met, including
an impact on health and wellbeing, the ability to engage in community life and,
crucially, the employment market.
For more information see the full CASE research report
No Place
Like An Accessible Home: Quality of life and opportunity for disabled people
with accessible housing needs.
News Posted: 01 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
After over 18 years in the role, John Hills will be stepping-down as
Director of CASE from mid-September, reflecting the increasing demands on his
time as Co-Director of the recently established LSE International Inequalities
Institute.
Tania Burchardt, currently Deputy Director will become Director of CASE.
Tania will be supported by Abigail McKnight, Kitty Stewart and Polly Vizard as
Associate Directors, while Anne Power will continue to direct the LSE Housing
and Communities Group.
CASE colleagues are delighted that John will continue to be involved in
an advisory function as Chair of CASE and through continuing research as part of
the centre.
News Posted: 08 July 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Over the last year or so we have been conducting three major evidence reviews
for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for
Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.
We were given the opportunity to present findings to the EU’s Social Protection
Committee, the European Social Policy Network and at a half-day seminar at the
European Commission. We are pleased to inform you that these evidence
reviews have just been published by the Commission and are free to download.
Evidence review - Creating More Equal Societies: What Works?
by Abigail McKnight, Magali Duque and Mark Rucci
The aim
of
this review is to assess the effectiveness of
education, wage setting institutions and welfare states in reducing inequality.
Education both empowers people and provides them with tradeable skills to secure
a decent income – greater equality in individuals’ ability to generate income in
the labour market is key to producing more equitable outcomes.
Evidence shows that
imbalances in power result in some workers being underpaid while others are
overpaid. Collective wage bargaining
and minimum wages
have proved to be successful
in reducing wage inequality.
Curbs
on the
power of
top executives,
power which has allowed them to
take an increasing share of the wagebill to the
detriment of other workers
and form a politically powerful elite,
need further development.
Welfare states
need to evolve
to meet the
challenges of ‘new inequalities’
and changing employment landscapes, but are essential now and
will continue to be essential in the future
to help individuals redistribute income over their own lives as well as between
the rich and poor.
Evidence review - Low pay and in-work poverty: preventative measures and
preventative approaches
by Abigail McKnight, Kitty Stewart, Sam Mohun Himmelweit
and Marco Palillo
The evidence
presented in
this review
highlights the benefits of preventing individuals entering low paid work as they
can become trapped in low paid jobs or end up cycle between unemployment and
precarious, low quality work. In countries
where collective wage bargaining institutions
declined
or even disappeared in the latter part of the 20th Century,
governments have been forced to piece together
a number of policies
to replace the role they played in creating wage floors and reducing inequality.
These include
minimum wages
and (costly)
in-work benefits.
Reducing the incidence of low pay also has the benefit of reducing in-work
poverty.
However, the review emphasises that
an effective anti-poverty strategy requires a
portfolio of additional measures
as well – not all low paid workers are living in poor households and not all
workers living in poor households are low paid. These additional measures
include improving job stability and quality,
increasing
maternal employment
and encouraging greater sharing of paid and unpaid work within the household,
and – crucially –
supporting families with children
through universal
child benefits and/or tax credits
to lower earning households. The role of the latter is particularly important,
both because of the higher incidence of in-work poverty in households with
children, and because of the long-term consequences of growing up in poverty for
children’s lives and opportunities.
Evidence review - The Strength of the Link between Income Support and Activation
by Abigail McKnight and Arnaud Vaganay
The
integration of the administration of income
support claims and public employment services
in many countries
has had a number of benefits
which include cost savings, reinforcement of the link between benefit receipt
and the need to find work, and easier access to labour market programmes.
The
effectiveness of linking activation with income support receipt depends on the
suitability of the activation programme. The
review
concludes that
in the short-term activation programmes that
‘push’ jobseekers into work may appear to be more effective
than programmes that invest in the employability of jobseekers.
However,
in the longer term
there is a greater tendency for jobseekers pushed to take the first available
job to cycle between unemployment and precarious forms of employment while
programmes that seek to improve the job match
and enhance the skills of jobseekers result in better longer term employment
outcomes.
News Posted: 01 July 2016 [ Back to the Top]
The new London Mayor
Sadiq Khan was elected in May on a platform of fairness, with commitments to a
more equal London, the creation of a new economic fairness unit within the GLA
and tackling low pay.
In this latest blog we look at disparities in key economic outcomes
(unemployment, youth unemployment, low pay, income and wealth) in London by
ethnic group.
The findings are drawn
from our comprehensive report on inequality and disadvantage in London published
last year,
The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in
London (2007-2013). The report provided a detailed
picture of what happened to different population groups in London in the wake of
the crisis and downturn. In a series of blogs we are expanding that analysis by
‘drilling down’ into different aspects of inequality in London.
Other blogs in this
series:
Inequalities and disadvantage in London – focus on Disability
News Posted: 22 June 2016 [ Back to the Top]
LSE Housing and Communities, with support from La Fabrique de la Cité invites you to the launch of Anne Power's latest publication 'Cities for a Small Continent'. This book draws together 10 years of ground-level research into the ways Europe's ex-industrial cities are treading new paths in sustainability. Anne Power uses seven case-study cities to detail how and why city change happens, and how cities in the world's smallest, most crowded, most city-loving continent can build a more viable, balanced and sustainable urban future.
To purchase a copy of Cities for a Small Continent, please visit the Policy Press website
Listen to the podcast:
Chaired by Professor Ricky Burdett, this event will explore the causes and consequences of urban challenges in post-industrial European cities and the potential that their model offers in creating more sustainable cities. Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution will situate this study in a US-context whilst Anne Power will set out the European perspective.
Speakers confirmed are:
- Professor Ricky Burdett, LSE Cities
- Professor Anne Power, LSE Housing and Communities and Professor of Social Policy
- Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution
Cities for a Small Continent will be available to buy at the event. There will also be an opportunity to have your book signed by Anne Power and Bruce Katz.
The event is free but booking is essential. Please RSVP to lsehousingandcommunities@lse.ac.uk to register your interest.
Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 3PH
LSE Housing Special Event
News Posted: 24 May 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Venue: London School of Economics, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Wednesday 27th April 2016, 3.00 - 6.00 pm, followed by a drinks reception
Speakers: Professor Hugh Bochel, Professor Sir John Hills, Professor Ruth
Lupton, Professor Martin Powell, Dr Polly Vizard
Respondents: Nick
Timmins (The
King's Fund, Institute for Government, former public policy editor at the
Financial Times) and Peter
Taylor Gooby (Research
Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent)
Chair:
Professor Coretta Phillips
This event will launch two new complementary publications analysing UK social
policy from 2010 to 2015. Hugh Bochel and Martin Powell will introduce The
Coalition government and social policy: restructuring the welfare state and
Ruth Lupton will present on the key findings from Social
Policy in a Cold Climate: policies and their consequences since the crisis. Polly
Vizard and Martin Powell will jointly present on “What happened in health
services? John Hills will then lead a short commentary to be followed by a
discussion led by the respondents Nick Timmins and Peter Taylor-Gooby. There
will then be an opportunity for questions from the audience.
Hugh Bochel is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Lincoln.
John Hills is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, Director of the Centre
for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and Co-Director of the International
Inequalities Institute at LSE.
Ruth Lupton is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester.
Martin Powell is Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of
Birmingham.
Coretta Phillips is An Associate Professor of Social Policy
at the LSE
Dr Polly Vizard is a Associate Professorial Research Fellow at CASE, LSE.
This event is free and open to all please register your interest by email to case@lse.ac.uk
News Posted: 03 March 2016 [ Back to the Top]
This week the House
of Commons will be discussing the Welfare Reform and Work Bill once again.
Discussing the bill in January, the Lords decided that the government should
continue to track and report annually on the existing suite of four child
poverty indicators – which the Conservative government is seeking to abolish. In
their place, the government wants to report on an alternative set of “life
chances measures”, which will include education attainment at age 16 and
household worklessness. Kitty Stewart
argues that the government should listen to the House of Lords and to expert
opinion and retain the official child poverty measures.
Continue reading at LSE British Politics and Policy.
News Posted: 22 February 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Thomas More’s
Utopia was published 500
years ago, in 1516, following discussions that had started in Antwerp the
previous year.
John Hills has been part of a European
research programme on contemporary poverty reduction in Europe co-ordinated by
Antwerp University, and was asked to reflect on connections between More’s fable
and today’s debates. Utopians would generally not behave badly, he writes. Their
behaviour was not reinforced by tangible incentives but by a cultural belief in
lifetime honours, after death rewards and punishment on one hand, and a fear of
being shamed if they behaved badly on the other. Today, in a blog for
LSE British Politics and Policy he explains, this balance has
disappeared as
the debate
on social security and anti-poverty strategy is dominated by worries about
incentives and disincentives.
News Posted: 22 February 2016 [ Back to the Top]
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