[…] the pandemic itself and our response to it, and that the crisis does in itself have the potential to exacerbate some of these pre-existing inequalities fairly directly. Moreover, it seems likely that the current crisis will leave legacies that will impact inequalities in the long term. These possibilities are not all disequalising, but many are.
[…] generations and how that may be contributing to health inequalities and long-term mobility. In this paper, we use the UK as a case study to evaluate the impact of three distinct policy periods: 1991–1998 (Increasing neo-liberalism); 1998–2009 (English Health Inequalities Strategy); 2010–2017 (Austerity) on the relationship across generations in health (self-assessed health (SAH) and […]
Background: Covid-19 has been shown to be having a disproportionate impact on the health of individuals from different ethnic groups and those employed in certain occupations, whilst the indirect impacts of Covid-19, including the closure of schools and business and the move to home working, fall disproportionately on the young and on women. These […]
We analyse the UK policy response to Covid-19 and its impact on household incomes in the UK in April and May 2020, using microsimulation methods. We estimate that households lost a substantial share of their net income of 6.9% on average. But policies protected household incomes to a substantial degree: compared to the drop […]
[…] potential bidirectional relationship between loneliness and unemployment in working age individuals. As most existing research focuses on the outcomes of unemployment, this paper seeks to understand the impact of loneliness on unemployment, potential interaction with physical health, and assess bidirectionality in the working age population. Methods: This study utilised data from waves 9 (2017–19) […]
This paper investigates the question of the impact of use of various facilities of the Worldwide Web on patterns of sociability. Its sets out a neo-functionalist model of socio-technical innovation which is designed to explore prospectively the impact of innovations in areas such as Information and Communications Technology, on the full range of sociable […]
This paper uses the 1999 wave of the Swiss Household Panel study to examine the impact of first language on social, cultural, and human capital. Drawing upon previous research which has identified a ‘language penalty’ for minority language speakers in multilingual countries, we aim to examine whether this relationship holds true in Switzerland, and […]
This paper uses the 1999 wave of the Swiss Household Panel study to examine the impact of first language on social, cultural, and human capital. Drawing upon previous research which has identified a ‘language penalty’ for minority language speakers in multilingual countries, we aim to examine whether this relationship holds true in Switzerland, and […]
[…] group. I provide further evidence that the adverse consequences of a job loss cannot be measured in monetary terms alone, and extend the current literature on the impact of job loss (unemployment) on marital instability by also investigate the impact in the long run. The results suggest the existence of a destabilizing impact on […]
[…] tax-benefit system in OECD countries notably reduces market inequality, in Brazil the government has not been able to significantly alleviate inequality and poverty. This paper investigates the impact of the government budget, particularly taxes and cash transfers, on income distribution in Brazil, and evaluates its efficiency and effectiveness in reducing inequality and poverty. The […]