This report defines destitution in the UK, looking at how many people are affected, who they are, and the main pathways in and out of destitution. It looks at the impact and experience of those people directly affected.

[…] country studies on scarring effects of early employment insecurity in the United Kingdom, Poland and Norway. Traditional analysis of scarring effects has favoured the analysis of the impact of the experience of unemployment on the experience of subsequent unemployment (state dependence) and the monetary costs of previous unemployment in terms of lower subsequent wages […]

This study examines the role of people’s subjective well-being in relation to one of the most important economic shocks – unemployment. It empirically investigates the impact of well-being on (i) unemployment propensity, (ii) maintaining employment and (iii) exiting from unemployment. We find that being more satisfied with life and having better mental health in […]

[…] Responsibility (OBR) has forecast PDF the level of unsecured debt to return to pre-crisis levels by the end of the decade. Within wider concerns about the possible impact of a return to such high levels of debt on the economy, there is an ongoing challenge faced by the individuals and families who have unmanageable […]

[…] at what works – and crucially what’s needed – to improve their employment prospects. And new analysis for this report finds that caring has a statistically significant impact on employment prospects from as little as five hours care provision per week, and that from 10 hours carers suffer significant detriment to their employment prospects, […]

[…] income that is taxed away through direct taxes, social insurance contributions or through benefit withdrawal when increasing labour supply (effective marginal tax rate). We also investigate the impact of reforms on poverty, income distribution as well as their first-order financial costs. We use microsimulation techniques applied to a representative sample of Lithuanian households. Our […]

The distributional impact of policy changes is usually considered in terms of equivalised household income, assuming that each individual within the household is being affected in the same way, as a result of complete income pooling. The aim of this paper is to extend this approach by introducing a gender perspective in the analysis […]

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender […]

[…] in the life course the needs of one generation of adults substantially affect the behaviour of the preceding or subsequent generations. This study is concerned with the impact of the health of older parents on the extent and kind of help they receive from their middle-aged offspring. It is one manifestation of solidarity between […]

This report explores how people on low incomes perceive politics, how far they feel they can control or influence the impact of politics and policy on their lives, and provides a platform for them to speak out on the issues that most concern them.