Low Pay and Income in Urban and Rural Areas: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Alana Gilbert, Euan Phimister and Ioannis Theodossiou
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Alana Gilbert: Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, UK. a.gilbert@ macaulay.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2003, vol. 40, issue 7, 1207-1222

Abstract: This paper examines the extent of urban-rural differences in low pay and the link between low pay and low incomes using data on urban and rural residents from the British Household Panel Survey for 1991-98. The results suggest that, overall, urban wages were significantly less than accessible rural but significantly more than remote rural wages even after adjustments were made for differences in observed characteristics. A lower percentage of urban workers who experienced low pay were also resident in low-income households. Lower urban in-employment and in-self-employment poverty were found relative to poor remote rural households even after differences in the characteristics across the different samples were controlled for.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000084569

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