Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Frank A. Cowell

A chapter in Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty, 2006, pp 3-30 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: In this paper, we examine the concept of “vulnerability” within the context of income mobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UK using waves 1–12 of the British Household Panel Survey and find that, of three different types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wide aggregate shocks have the greatest impact on consumption, in comparison to shocks to the income stream.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/S1049-2585(06)13001-X

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