https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95344 2026-09-14T07:30:40Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283879 Title: An intergenerational audit for the UK: 2023 Authors: Broome, Molly; Corlett, Adam; Hale, Sophie; McCurdy, Charlie; Pacitti, Cara Abstract: Five years ago, our Intergenerational Commission set out the numerous threats to the UK's promise of intergenerational progress. More recently, the spotlight has once again fallen on this issue, but this time in the US, where the latest data has started to suggest that living standards for the millennials are catching up with, and on some measures even surpassing, the generations that came before them. This fifth Intergenerational Audit for the UK - part of the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations research programme - provides a comprehensive assessment of how living standards have changed for younger generations, in an attempt to shed some light on whether millennials in the UK have experienced a comparable improvement in their economic fortunes as their US counterparts. We show that, unlike in the US, welcome improvements to millennials' living standards in recent years in the UK have not gone far enough to close the long-standing generational gaps. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283875 Title: Single mothers and child support in extended-family households: An international perspective Authors: Guarin, Angela; Mesiäislehto, Merita; Hakovirta, Mia; Costanzo, Molly Abstract: Extended-family households are a common arrangement among single mothers in various countries. Using Luxembourg Income Study data from waves 2014-2019, we study child support receipt among single mothers living in extended-family households in Chile, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, the United States, and Uruguay. We have three aims: (1) to present the prevalence and characteristics of single mothers living in extended-family households; (2) to compare the level of child support received by extended-family and other single-mother households; and (3) to examine whether living in an extended-family household is a predictor of child support receipt across countries. We find the characteristics of mothers in extended family households vary by country. Overall, mothers in extended family households are more likely to be younger, have lower levels of education, are less likely to be employed, and are somewhat less likely to receive child support compared to other single mothers. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283859 Title: Isograph and LaSiPiKa Distribution: The Comparative Morphology of Income Inequalities and Intelligible Parameters of 53 LIS Countries 1967-2020 Authors: Chauvel, Louis Abstract: The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results, and is implemented on 53 LIS countries (with an annex covering 655 LIS country-year samples). The gb2 and other classical distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the LaSi distribution to fit the quasi-linear isograph cases of level lambda and slope sigma, and finally the LaSiPiKa that completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of distributions with sharp flexible profiles in the isograph and provides independent intelligible parameters. The analysis is systematized to 655 samples to show the invariant patterns and significant changes. More complicated distributional shapes can be fitted with hand-tailored additional terms. Working with isograph and LaSiPiKa distributions is a way to diversify and deepen inequality analyses with a larger conceptualization of "morphology of inequality," not reduced to a Gini (or the like) measure. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283864 Title: The impact of imputed rent on old-aged poverty: The evidence for the Luxembourg Income Study Authors: Marcinkiewicz, Edyta; Chybalski, Filip Abstract: Our study contributes to the discussion on the impact of imputed rent on poverty. In this paper, we address the issue of the relevance of imputed rent specifically in regard to the welfare of older people. Our aim is to assess how imputed rental income relates to monetary income for both homeowners and subsidized tenants, to draw more comprehensive picture of poverty among retirees, who are considered to be an economically vulnerable group. We employ the Luxembourg Income Study database (wave X) to compare the situation of elderly households in seventeen countries in this respect. The results obtained demonstrate that although imputed rental income is quite universal among the older population, there is a lot of a cross-country variation in this respect, which partly can be attributed to the methodological constraints. Nonetheless, we can conclude that imputed rental income contributes to poverty reduction. This also entails some policy implications in the long run, especially in the face of housing market shifts, rising wealth inequalities and the expected reduction in the generosity of public pensions. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z