The current cost of living is pushing more people into poverty, with almost 68% of low income...
Social mobility
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27/03/2014
Child poverty commission – government responds
The coalition government has claimed that it is tackling the root causes of poverty by 'giving people opportunities rather than trapping them in dependency', in its response to the first annual report of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
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25/11/2013
Low income and digital exclusion
There’s a story that we tell ourselves about poverty and digital exclusion: the poorest people are digitally excluded; digital exclusion perpetuates poverty: therefore, getting people online will help lift them out of poverty. Lyndsey Burton assesses the evidence.
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17/10/2013
Child poverty target to be missed says Commission
The legally binding goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is likely to be missed by a considerable margin, according to the government-appointed Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission in its first 'state of the nation' annual report.
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30/09/2013
Trends in social mobility – declining or static?
Has social mobility in Britain been declining in recent decades, or has it been broadly static? Researchers at the London School of Economics have been trying to reconcile the different answers to that question given by incomes data as against social class data.
The researchers examine two divergent findings. On the one hand, family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared with one born in 1958 – suggesting that social mobility has been declining. On the other hand, inter-generational mobility is found to be unchanged on the basis of trends in social class.
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10/09/2013
Commission wants better deal for low-paid workers
Further government action on low pay is needed to help tackle the problem of in-work poverty, according to a report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
The Commission – an official advisory body chaired by former Labour minister Alan Milburn – was asked by the coalition government to give its view on what further steps could reasonably be taken to improve social mobility.
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13/08/2013
‘Time lag’ in income mobility trends
Current trends in income mobility between different generations may be heavily influenced by policies and events in the past, according to a new study of developed countries by researchers at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn.
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13/08/2013
Next US generation ‘faces lower earnings mobility’
The next generation of Americans faces a lower level of inter-generational earnings mobility than their immediate predecessors, according to a paper from the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. At the same time those on the very highest incomes will be better placed to ensure their privileges are passed on to their children.
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25/06/2013
People on low incomes trapped in deprived areas
People on low incomes are more likely to live in areas of high material deprivation from which they find it physically difficult to escape, according to a new academic study of geographical mobility from Manchester University.
The analysis uses longitudinal data for England over the period 1991–2008 drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, combined with aggregate ward-level Census data.Category: Reports -
24/03/2013
Inequality of opportunity – international comparisons
Inequality of opportunity is directly linked to income inequality in a range of different countries, finds a new study from an international research forum.
The authors note that methodological problems have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons of this kind. They approach the problem by comparing measures of inequality of economic opportunity across 41 countries (mostly in Europe and Latin America), and linking them to indices of output per head, income inequality and intergenerational mobility.Category: Reports -
05/12/2012
‘Myth’ of social mobility in USA
Social mobility is relatively poor in the USA, contrary to the popular perception, according to a report prepared by the Congressional research service. The USA also appears to be have one of the most unequal distributions of income of all major industrialised countries, and to be among the nations experiencing the greatest increases in measures of income dispersion. The share of income in the USA going to the bottom quintile (the poorest 20 per cent) has remained little changed in recent few decades at less than 4 per cent, whereas the share taken by the top 5 per cent rose from 16.3 per cent in 1968 to 22.3 per cent in 2011.
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