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Low Income Dynamics in 1990s Britain
Author(s) -
JARVIS SARAH,
JENKINS STEPHEN P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
fiscal studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1475-5890
pISSN - 0143-5671
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5890.1997.tb00257.x
Subject(s) - low income , economics , demographic economics , panel study of income dynamics , british household panel survey , income distribution , labour economics , net national income , gross income , public economics , inequality , mathematics , mathematical analysis , tax reform , state income tax
This paper analyses low income dynamics in Britain using the first four waves of the British Household Panel Survey. There is much low income turnover: although there is a small group of people who are persistently poor, more striking is the relatively large number of low income escapers and entrants from one year to the next. Simulations using estimated low income exit and re‐entry rates demonstrate the importance of repeated low income spells for explaining a person's experience of low income over a given period. We also document the characteristics of low income stayers, escapers and entrants.