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| Title: | | The end of destitution  |
| Authors: | | Gazeley, Ian Newell, Andrew |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4295 |
| Abstract: | | The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered data sets. We estimate an almost complete elimination of absolute poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate causes, of roughly equal importance, the decline in family size and the rise of real wages. We conclude with some speculation about the deeper causes of the decline. |
| Subjects: | | Poverty living standards Britain demographic change real wage growth |
| JEL: | | N3 O12 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090824230 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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