Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain

by Stephen P. Jenkins

Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given year and compares those numbers with the corresponding statistics from the previous year. Missing from snapshot pictures like these is information about whether the people who were poor one year are the same people who are poor the following year; and the circumstances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199226431
• ISBN13: 9780199226436
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"