Journal Article
Earnings mobility, family income and low pay
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Publication date
1996
Abstract
For policy purposes it is important to establish both the nature of the low-paid workforce at any point in time and ability to obtain better paid jobs through mobility within the earnings distribution over time. In particular, two important issues are the extent to which low pay is a transient phenomenon for any particular worker and the extent to which low pay is associated with low family incomes and therefore poverty. We attempt to examine both aspects making use of the first three waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS).
Published in
Economic Journal
Volume
106 (436):657-666
Subjects
Poverty, Income Dynamics, and Wages And Earnings
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