Stephen P Jenkins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 244666 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen P Jenkins |
| NOMBRES | Stephen P |
| APELLIDO | Jenkins |
| FIRMA | JENKINS S P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8305-9774 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 651 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1912 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
The Relationship Between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by earlier research. Our measures of SWL inequality include indices designed specifically for ordinal data as well as often used (but inappropriate) measures suited to cardinal data. Using inequality indices derived by Cowell and Flachaire designed for use with ordinal data, our analysis shows that skewness of the SWL d…
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution
UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics, and the academic research that influenced them, and reflects on the lessons to learn from the UK experience
Measurement error in earnings data
Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics , 2012) developed methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW applied their method using parameter estimates of Kapteyn and Ypma's mixture factor model (KY, Journal of Labour Economics 2007) fitted to earnings data for Swedish workers aged 50+. First, we repl…
How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics
A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive ‘synthetic panel’ data estimates of poverty dynamics statistics. It builds on the pioneering study by Dang et al. (‘DLLM’, Journal of Development Economics, 2014) providing bounds estimates and the innovative refinement proposed by Dang and Lanjouw (‘DL’, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6504, 2013) providing point estimates of the statistics of interest. We provide new ev…
Tony Atkinson and His Legacy
Tony Atkinson and his Legacy
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense, rejecting any sub‐field labelling of his interests and expertise, and he made contributions right across economics. His death on 1 January 2017 deprived the world of both an intellectual giant and a deeply com…
Pareto Models, Top Incomes and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the ‘rich’) and household survey data (for the ‘non‐rich’), taking advantage of the better coverage of top incomes in tax return data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables in the survey data with the same definitions as in the tax data to enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean incom…
Assessing Individual Income Growth
We develop methods for describing distributions of income growth across individuals and for comparing changes in growth distributions over time. The methods include graphical devices (‘income growth profiles’) and dominance conditions, and also summary indices, together with associated methods of estimation and inference. Taking an explicitly longitudinal perspective, our approach illuminates clearly who are the gainers and the losers, and also p…
Multilevel Modelling of Country Effects
Country effects on outcomes for individuals are often analysed using multilevel (hierarchical) models applied to harmonized multi-country data sets such as ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We point out problems with the assessment of country effects that appear not to be widely appreciated, and develop our arguments using Monte Carlo simulation analysis of multilevel linear and logit models. With large sample sizes of individuals within each c…
Poverty trends in Turkey
World income inequality databases
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and accessible sources for researchers seeking cross-national data with global coverage for relatively long time periods. Against these undoubted benefits must…
The Relationship Between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty
Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income
"The so-called Great Recession that followed the global financial crisis at the end of 2007 was the largest economic downturn since the 1930s for most rich countries. To what extent were household incomes affected by this event, and how did the effects differ across countries? This is the first cross-national study of the impact of the Great Recession on the distribution of household incomes. Looking at real income levels, poverty rates, and inco…
PP76 Exploring Barriers and Solutions to take up of Interventions to Address Fuel Poverty
Background Fuel poverty – whereby households are unable to keep warm at reasonable cost – is an on-going problem within the UK. There are known health impacts of living in cold homes, and a number of free or subsidised interventions are available to help address fuel poverty. There is however concern that such interventions are not being taken up by those in greatest need. A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) was therefore conducted to explore barrie…
The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income
This is a cross-national study of the impact of the Great Recession (GR) on the distribution of household incomes. Looking at real income levels, poverty rates, and income inequality, the book focuses on the period 2007–9, but also considers longer term impacts. Three contributions are made. First, the book reviews lessons from the past about the relationships between macroeconomic change and the household income distribution. Second, it consider…
The Great Recession and its consequences for household incomes in 21 countries
This chapter reviews the impact of the Great Recession (GR) on household incomes in 21 OECD countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. It describes the nature of the macroeconomic changes that characterize the GR in these countries, and how these have worked through to household in…
Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the United States
Although most U.S. income inequality research is based on public use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially faster inequality growth for recent years. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely reconciled when the income distribution and inequality are defined the same way. Using internal CPS data for 1967 to 2006, we show that CPS-based estimates of top income shares are simil…
The Measurement of Economic Inequality
income distribution ; social inequality
Changing Fortunes
Britain's income distribution is like a multi-story apartment building with the numbers of residents on the different floors corresponding to the concentration of people at different income levels in any particular year. The poorest are in the basement, the richest are in the penthouse, and the majority somewhere in between. But what are the dynamics of occupancy patterns? Snapshots of the building register at different times tell us nothing abou…
Financial capability and psychological health
Estimating trends in US income inequality using the Current Population Survey
Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk’s 1995 paper ‘Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the US
Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
The impact of macroeconomic conditions on income inequality
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel
Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are less well off. But inequalities in people's economic positions are also related to their characteristics - whether they are men or women, their ages, ethnic backgrounds, and so on. The independent National Equality Panel, was establ…
Multilevel Modelling of Country Effects
Country effects on outcomes for individuals are often analysed using multilevel (hierarchical) models applied to harmonized multi-country data sets such as ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We point out problems with the assessment of country effects that appear not to be widely appreciated, and develop our arguments using Monte Carlo simulation analysis of multilevel linear and logit models. With large sample sizes of individuals within each c…
Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty
Journal Article Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty Get access Fiona A. E. Coulter, Fiona A. E. Coulter University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Frank A. Cowell, Frank A. Cowell London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen P. Jenkins Stephen P. Jenkins University College of Swansea Search for other …
Marital splits and income changes
We provide new evidence about what happens to people's incomes when their or their parents' marital union dissolves using longitudinal data from waves 1-4 of the British Household Panel Survey. Marital splits are accompanied by substantial declines in real income for separating wives and children on average, whereas separating husbands' real income on average changes much less. Results are shown to be robust to the choice of income definition and…
Modelling household income dynamics
How Much Inequality Can we Explain? A Methodology and an Application to the United States
We develop two simple measures of how much inequality is explained by individual population characteristics or groups of characteristics, analogous to R2 in regression analysis. We investigate the measures' empirical implementation using several alternative theoretically consistent approaches to inequality decomposition. Results are illustrated using US PSID income data
Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes
How Much Income Mobility is There in Britain
Journal Article How Much Income Mobility is There in Britain? Get access Sarah Jarvis, Sarah Jarvis University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen Jenkins Stephen Jenkins University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 108, Issue 447, 1 March 1998, Pages 428–443, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00296 Published: 27 Dece…
Accounting for Inequality Trends
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:3597.9715(UCS-DE-DPS--92-10) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply Centre
World income inequality databases
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and accessible sources for researchers seeking cross-national data with global coverage for relatively long time periods. Against these undoubted benefits must…
Poverty Measurement and the Within-Household Distribution
Mainsteam poverty analysis is deficient because it ignores important within-household aspects. This point has been made by many, and stressed by feminists especially, yet mainstream poverty measurement practice remains unchanged. Why is this? What should we be doing? This paper examines anew the case for taking within-household factors into account in poverty measurement. The analysis reveals a number of unresolved issues including some problems …
Disability and Disadvantage
This article analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled persons of working age using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We argue that there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: pre-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a 'selection' effect), the effect of disability onset itself, and the effects associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with d…
Intergenerational Continuities in Housing
This paper uses data from the Rowntree Follow-up Survey to provide new empirical evidence on the association between the housing status of parents and children. The paper concludes that there appear to be some significant continuities across successive family generations in tenure, density and housing expenditure. The results are relevant to assessments of the 'fairness' of the distribution of housing and raise interesting questions for future wo…
Parametric Equivalence Scales and Scale Relativities
We respond to Banks and Johnson's (1994) Comment on Coulter et al. (1992) drawing on a more general discussion of parametric equivalence scale and scale relativity issues and new empirical results. We show that criticisms of our earlier work are unfounded. When the McClements scale is properly characterised, the scale does indeed provide lower estimates of poverty and inequality levels than most other scales. We reiterate our conclusion that rela…
Modelling domestic work time
Financial capability and psychological health
The Relationship Between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty
Retirement and the income of older people
Little is known about the income dynamics of retirement in Britain, in part because of a lack of data. The information is of some topical interest given the growing number of older people, the trend towards earlier retirement, the decline in the value of the basic state pension, the growing reliance on occupational and private pensions, and continuing relatively high poverty rates among people in old age. This paper considers the important questi…
Estimating trends in US income inequality using the Current Population Survey
Pareto Models, Top Incomes and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the ‘rich’) and household survey data (for the ‘non‐rich’), taking advantage of the better coverage of top incomes in tax return data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables in the survey data with the same definitions as in the tax data to enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean incom…
Poverty trends in Turkey
The impact of macroeconomic conditions on income inequality
Accounting for income distribution trends
A Multiperiod Model of Nonprofit Enterprises
Gender Differentials in Domestic Work, Market Work, and Total Work Time
We provide evidence about UK trends in gender differentials in market work time, domestic work time, and their sum (total work time) between the mid‐1970s and mid‐1980s. The ratio of women's total work hours to men's total work hours changed little, but for both sexes allocations of time to different types of work changed considerably. Breakdowns by marital status reveal additional interesting information. The trends in domestic work time are dec…
The Economics of Equal Opportunities
Journal Article The Economics of Equal Opportunities. Get access The Economics of Equal Opportunities. Edited by Jane Humphries and Jill Rubery. (Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission, 1995. Pp. xix + 436. £25.00 paperback. ISBN 1 870358 47 3.) Stephen P. Jenkins Stephen P. Jenkins University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pages 20…
The Greatest Street in the World
The Old Boston Post Road
Intergenerational Continuities in Housing
This paper uses data from the Rowntree Follow-up Survey to provide new empirical evidence on the association between the housing status of parents and children. The paper concludes that there appear to be some significant continuities across successive family generations in tenure, density and housing expenditure. The results are relevant to assessments of the 'fairness' of the distribution of housing and raise interesting questions for future wo…
A Multiperiod Model of Nonprofit Enterprises
Reforming the Social Security System
Dynamics of Income Distribution
Reranking and the Analysis of Income Redistribution
This paper shows that reranking of income units by the redistributive process "matters" because ignoring it can lead to biases in estimates of the degree of inequality, and of redistributive effect and progressivity. The theoretical arguments are illustrated using household micro-data from the 1971 U.K. Family Expenditure Survey. Copyright 1988 by Scottish Economic Society
International Comparisons of the Distribution of Household Wealth
Journal Article International Comparisons of the Distribution of Household Wealth Get access International Comparisons of the Distribution of Household Wealth. Edited by EDWARD N.WOLFF. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 283. £27.50 hardback.) Stephen Jenkins Stephen Jenkins University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 98, Issue 389, 1 March 1988, Pages 204–206, ht…
ChiWriter
Journal Article ChiWriter: The Scientific/Multifont Word Processor for the IBM PC and Compatibles Get access ChiWriter: the Scientific/Multifont Word Processor for the IBM PC and Compatibles. By Horstmann Software Design Corporation: P.O. Box 1807, San Jose, CA 95109, USA. Stephen P. Jenkins Stephen P. Jenkins University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 406, 1…
Poverty Measurement and the Within-Household Distribution
Mainsteam poverty analysis is deficient because it ignores important within-household aspects. This point has been made by many, and stressed by feminists especially, yet mainstream poverty measurement practice remains unchanged. Why is this? What should we be doing? This paper examines anew the case for taking within-household factors into account in poverty measurement. The analysis reveals a number of unresolved issues including some problems …
Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty
Journal Article Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty Get access Fiona A. E. Coulter, Fiona A. E. Coulter University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Frank A. Cowell, Frank A. Cowell London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen P. Jenkins Stephen P. Jenkins University College of Swansea Search for other …
Lone Mothers' Employment and Full-Time Work Probabilities
Journal Article Lone Mothers' Employment and Full-Time Work Probabilities Get access Stephen P. Jenkins Stephen P. Jenkins Department of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 411, 1 March 1992, Pages 310–320, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234516 Published: 01 March 1992
Parametric Equivalence Scales and Scale Relativities
We respond to Banks and Johnson's (1994) Comment on Coulter et al. (1992) drawing on a more general discussion of parametric equivalence scale and scale relativity issues and new empirical results. We show that criticisms of our earlier work are unfounded. When the McClements scale is properly characterised, the scale does indeed provide lower estimates of poverty and inequality levels than most other scales. We reiterate our conclusion that rela…
Easy Estimation Methods for Discrete‐Time Duration Models
Recent literature has emphasized that estimation of duration models should take account of the sampling theme generating the data, but this cannot be done using the duration modules in currently-available packages. This paper shows that discrete-time duration models can be estimated easily using widely-available, non-specialist, software packages. It focuses on the case where the data are for respondents randomly selected from a stock at one date…
Modelling domestic work time
Accounting for Inequality Trends
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:3597.9715(UCS-DE-DPS--92-10) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply Centre
How Much Inequality Can we Explain? A Methodology and an Application to the United States
We develop two simple measures of how much inequality is explained by individual population characteristics or groups of characteristics, analogous to R2 in regression analysis. We investigate the measures' empirical implementation using several alternative theoretically consistent approaches to inequality decomposition. Results are illustrated using US PSID income data
Three 'I's of Poverty Curves, With an Analysis of Uk Poverty Trends
Three ‘I’s of Poverty (TIP) curves, based on distributions of poverty gaps, provide evocative graphical summaries of the incidence, intensity, and inequality dimensions of poverty, and a means for checking for unanimous poverty orderings according to a wide class of poverty indices. The orderings may be robust to variations in the deflator used to make nominal incomes comparable. An analysis of poverty in the UK during the 1980s demonstrates thes…
Gender Differentials in Domestic Work, Market Work, and Total Work Time
We provide evidence about UK trends in gender differentials in market work time, domestic work time, and their sum (total work time) between the mid‐1970s and mid‐1980s. The ratio of women's total work hours to men's total work hours changed little, but for both sexes allocations of time to different types of work changed considerably. Breakdowns by marital status reveal additional interesting information. The trends in domestic work time are dec…
The Economics of Equal Opportunities
Journal Article The Economics of Equal Opportunities. Get access The Economics of Equal Opportunities. Edited by Jane Humphries and Jill Rubery. (Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission, 1995. Pp. xix + 436. £25.00 paperback. ISBN 1 870358 47 3.) Stephen P. Jenkins Stephen P. Jenkins University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pages 20…
Low Income Dynamics in 1990s Britain
In this article we analyse the dynamics of low income in 1990s Britain using data from the first four annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
How Much Income Mobility is There in Britain
Journal Article How Much Income Mobility is There in Britain? Get access Sarah Jarvis, Sarah Jarvis University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen Jenkins Stephen Jenkins University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 108, Issue 447, 1 March 1998, Pages 428–443, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00296 Published: 27 Dece…
Marital splits and income changes
We provide new evidence about what happens to people's incomes when their or their parents' marital union dissolves using longitudinal data from waves 1-4 of the British Household Panel Survey. Marital splits are accompanied by substantial declines in real income for separating wives and children on average, whereas separating husbands' real income on average changes much less. Results are shown to be robust to the choice of income definition and…
Modelling household income dynamics
The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
A child poverty rate of ten percent could mean that every tenth child is always poor, or that all children are in poverty for one month in every ten. Knowing where reality lies between these extremes is vital to understanding the problem facing many countries of poverty among the young. This unique study goes beyond the standard analysis of child poverty based on poverty rates at one point in time and documents how much movement into and out of p…
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