The welfare cost of means-testing: pensioner participation in income support

[…] levels of stigma and other claim costs and non-claimants tend to be those with high levels of claim cost. A further aim is to assess the potential impact of implicit claim costs on the measurement of poverty. Implicit costs are found to be moderate for most IS recipients, typically around £3-4 per week (or […]

Social participation: how does it vary with illness, caring and ethnic group?

[…] of ‘ethnic capital’ in the life chances of minority ethnic groups. I use the British Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001 for England and Wales to explore the impact on four aspects of lack of social engagement of long-term illness, caring for someone with such an illness, and ethnicity. Controlling for a range of characteristics […]

Micro-simulating Child Poverty in Great Britain in 2010 and 2020

[…] demographic, economic and policy scenarios. It uses a static micro-simulation model, with projections of some key economic and demographic characteristics. It shows prospects for child poverty in Great Britain in 2010/11 and 2020/21 under current government policies, and quantifies the impact of possible tax and benefit changes that could be implemented by 2010 and 2020.