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dc.contributor.authorGazeley, Ianen
dc.contributor.authorNewell, Andrewen
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-27-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T12:04:35Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T12:04:35Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090824230en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35951-
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4295en
dc.subject.jelN3en
dc.subject.jelO12en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPovertyen
dc.subject.keywordliving standardsen
dc.subject.keywordBritainen
dc.subject.keyworddemographic changeen
dc.subject.keywordreal wage growthen
dc.subject.stwArmuten
dc.subject.stwLebensstandarden
dc.subject.stwReallohnen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftsgeschichteen
dc.subject.stwDemographischer Übergangen
dc.subject.stwFamiliensoziologieen
dc.subject.stwGroßbritannienen
dc.titleThe end of destitution-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn60942548Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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