Richard Berthoud
Biographic Data
| ID | 222388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Berthoud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Berthoud |
| SIGNATURE | BERTHOUD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Income, Deprivation and Poverty: A Longitudinal Analysis
Indices of material deprivation are of increasing interest in Britain and the EU as potential markers of poverty, as an alternative, or complement, to measures of low income. This is the first panel regression analysis of the relationship between households' incomes and deprivation scores over time. We show a close underlying link (people with long-term low incomes report long-term deprivation), but only a weak dynamic link (people whose income i…
Ageing, income and living standards: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
In Britain, older people have lower average incomes and a higher risk of income poverty than the general population. Older pensioners are more likely to be in poverty than younger ones. Yet certain indicators of their living standards suggest that older people experience less hardship than expected, given their incomes. A possible explanation is that older people convert income into basic living standards at a higher rate than younger people, imp…
Area variations in household income across Great Britain
Researchers and policy makers have long been interested in the spatial distribution of income. But we lack a balanced assessment of the extent to which the national pattern of inequality is attributable to variation between areas, or whether, on the contrary, there is wide variation between households within areas. One difficulty has been a lack of area-based incomes data. This paper uses an under-exploited source to undertake this decomposition …
Disability employment penalties in Britain
Economic disadvantage is an increasingly important component of the social position of disabled people.This article uses a large-scale and detailed survey of disabled people as an empirical platform for a discussion of their employment outcomes. It is well-established that disabled people vary in the nature and severity of their impairments, but the shape of the relationship between disability and employment cannot be predicted unambiguously from…
How can deprivation indicators help us to understand poverty
This article challenges the growing orthodoxy among analysts and makers of social policy that an index of material deprivation should be preferred to low income as a measure of poverty. Such scales are nevertheless invaluable as indicators of living standards, and can be used to improve our understanding of social exclusion, and the role of low income in that process. Income and deprivation data from seven waves of the British Household Panel Sur…
Age at first birth and disadvantage among ethnic groups in Britain
This article examines the relationship between age at first birth and poverty among ethnic minorities in Britain. It is well known that ethnic minorities, particularly Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, have very high rates of family poverty and early fertility. Because it has been established that early motherhood is associated with a high risk of poverty and other disadvantages, it is tempting to link Pakistani and Bangladeshi poverty with their earl…
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UK
This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as educat…
Social Europe: Living Standards and Welfare States
Disabled people and jobs
The economic position of disabled people is often summarised by comparing their overall employment rate with that of non-disabled people. But the average figure masks a very wide range of variation in the prospects faced by individual disabled people – immensely wider than the range for the population as a whole. The severity of their impairments is a crucial influence, but the Labour Force Survey makes no attempt to measure it. Disabled people a…
Poverty and prosperity among Britain’s ethnic minorities
Recent research provides evidence of continuing economic disadvantage among minority groups. But the wide variation between specific groups contradicts the notion that being a member of a minority group is, in itself, associated with financial hardship. This article summarises some of the quantitative evidence about ethnic minority incomes. Chinese and Indian households are characterised by a wide range of inequality within each group, with many …
Race', Racism and Ethnicity: A Response to Ken Smith
Seven years in the lives of British families: Evidence on the dynamics of social change from the British Household Panel Survey
'The family' is a subject of enormous academic, political and popular interest. It is a central feature of most people's lives, the framework within which other relationships, activities and events take place. This unique study provides important new insights into the dynamics of Britain's social and economic life - in family structures and relationships; in employment and household incomes; in housing, health and political affiliations. Most pre…
Ethnic employment penalties in Britain
It has been known for many years that Britain's ethnic minorities suffer disadvantage in employment. Recent findings have, however, shown a gap between the experiences of different minority groups. Indians and Chinese have employment rates and earnings levels similar to those of white members of the population; Caribbeans, Africans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis fare worse. Eleven years of Labour Force Survey data have been combined, so that the em…
Defining ethnic groups: Origin or identify? 1
Dans l'ensemble, l'A. pense que le questionnaire du recensement de la population anglaise de 1991 a constitue un grand pas en avant en proposant la question de l'origine ethnique. S'il souhaite que pour 2001, le meme canevas soit globalement reconduit, il pense neanmoins que la categorie black-other pour l'origine ethnique va entrainer des consequences desastreuses. En effet, les descendants nes anglais de migrants Noirs des Caraibes doivent etre…
The mental health of ethnic minorities
Clinical studies have suggested that men of Caribbean origin living in Britain had much higher rates of psychosis than their white counterparts; while adults of South Asian origin have been found to have lower rates of depression. These findings have been controversial, both because of the inherent difficulty of diagnosing mental illness, and because of the possibility of cultural bias in the definition and measurement of these conditions. This a…
In memoriam: Eileen Reid
The social fund — is it working
Welfare policy and social security
(1990). Welfare policy and social security. Policy Studies: Vol. 11, Policy Issues for the New Decade, pp. 38-45
The social fund — will it work
What next for taxes and benefits
Transmitted deprivation: The kite that failed
(1983). Transmitted deprivation: The kite that failed. Policy Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 151-169
Poverty and the Development of Anti-Poverty Policy in the U.K
Ethnic employment penalties in Britain
It has been known for many years that Britain's ethnic minorities suffer disadvantage in employment. Recent findings have, however, shown a gap between the experiences of different minority groups. Indians and Chinese have employment rates and earnings levels similar to those of white members of the population; Caribbeans, Africans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis fare worse. Eleven years of Labour Force Survey data have been combined, so that the em…
Defining ethnic groups: Origin or identify? 1
Dans l'ensemble, l'A. pense que le questionnaire du recensement de la population anglaise de 1991 a constitue un grand pas en avant en proposant la question de l'origine ethnique. S'il souhaite que pour 2001, le meme canevas soit globalement reconduit, il pense neanmoins que la categorie black-other pour l'origine ethnique va entrainer des consequences desastreuses. En effet, les descendants nes anglais de migrants Noirs des Caraibes doivent etre…
Income, Deprivation and Poverty: A Longitudinal Analysis
Indices of material deprivation are of increasing interest in Britain and the EU as potential markers of poverty, as an alternative, or complement, to measures of low income. This is the first panel regression analysis of the relationship between households' incomes and deprivation scores over time. We show a close underlying link (people with long-term low incomes report long-term deprivation), but only a weak dynamic link (people whose income i…
Disability employment penalties in Britain
Economic disadvantage is an increasingly important component of the social position of disabled people.This article uses a large-scale and detailed survey of disabled people as an empirical platform for a discussion of their employment outcomes. It is well-established that disabled people vary in the nature and severity of their impairments, but the shape of the relationship between disability and employment cannot be predicted unambiguously from…
Ageing, income and living standards: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
In Britain, older people have lower average incomes and a higher risk of income poverty than the general population. Older pensioners are more likely to be in poverty than younger ones. Yet certain indicators of their living standards suggest that older people experience less hardship than expected, given their incomes. A possible explanation is that older people convert income into basic living standards at a higher rate than younger people, imp…
Age at first birth and disadvantage among ethnic groups in Britain
This article examines the relationship between age at first birth and poverty among ethnic minorities in Britain. It is well known that ethnic minorities, particularly Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, have very high rates of family poverty and early fertility. Because it has been established that early motherhood is associated with a high risk of poverty and other disadvantages, it is tempting to link Pakistani and Bangladeshi poverty with their earl…
Race', Racism and Ethnicity: A Response to Ken Smith
The social fund — will it work
The mental health of ethnic minorities
Clinical studies have suggested that men of Caribbean origin living in Britain had much higher rates of psychosis than their white counterparts; while adults of South Asian origin have been found to have lower rates of depression. These findings have been controversial, both because of the inherent difficulty of diagnosing mental illness, and because of the possibility of cultural bias in the definition and measurement of these conditions. This a…
The social fund — is it working
Transmitted deprivation: The kite that failed
(1983). Transmitted deprivation: The kite that failed. Policy Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 151-169
Poverty and the Development of Anti-Poverty Policy in the U.K
Poverty and the Development of Anti-Poverty Policy in the U.K
Transmitted deprivation: The kite that failed
(1983). Transmitted deprivation: The kite that failed. Policy Studies: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 151-169
What next for taxes and benefits
The social fund — will it work
Welfare policy and social security
(1990). Welfare policy and social security. Policy Studies: Vol. 11, Policy Issues for the New Decade, pp. 38-45
The social fund — is it working
In memoriam: Eileen Reid
The mental health of ethnic minorities
Clinical studies have suggested that men of Caribbean origin living in Britain had much higher rates of psychosis than their white counterparts; while adults of South Asian origin have been found to have lower rates of depression. These findings have been controversial, both because of the inherent difficulty of diagnosing mental illness, and because of the possibility of cultural bias in the definition and measurement of these conditions. This a…
Defining ethnic groups: Origin or identify? 1
Dans l'ensemble, l'A. pense que le questionnaire du recensement de la population anglaise de 1991 a constitue un grand pas en avant en proposant la question de l'origine ethnique. S'il souhaite que pour 2001, le meme canevas soit globalement reconduit, il pense neanmoins que la categorie black-other pour l'origine ethnique va entrainer des consequences desastreuses. En effet, les descendants nes anglais de migrants Noirs des Caraibes doivent etre…
Seven years in the lives of British families: Evidence on the dynamics of social change from the British Household Panel Survey
'The family' is a subject of enormous academic, political and popular interest. It is a central feature of most people's lives, the framework within which other relationships, activities and events take place. This unique study provides important new insights into the dynamics of Britain's social and economic life - in family structures and relationships; in employment and household incomes; in housing, health and political affiliations. Most pre…
Ethnic employment penalties in Britain
It has been known for many years that Britain's ethnic minorities suffer disadvantage in employment. Recent findings have, however, shown a gap between the experiences of different minority groups. Indians and Chinese have employment rates and earnings levels similar to those of white members of the population; Caribbeans, Africans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis fare worse. Eleven years of Labour Force Survey data have been combined, so that the em…
Poverty and prosperity among Britain’s ethnic minorities
Recent research provides evidence of continuing economic disadvantage among minority groups. But the wide variation between specific groups contradicts the notion that being a member of a minority group is, in itself, associated with financial hardship. This article summarises some of the quantitative evidence about ethnic minority incomes. Chinese and Indian households are characterised by a wide range of inequality within each group, with many …
Race', Racism and Ethnicity: A Response to Ken Smith
Disabled people and jobs
The economic position of disabled people is often summarised by comparing their overall employment rate with that of non-disabled people. But the average figure masks a very wide range of variation in the prospects faced by individual disabled people – immensely wider than the range for the population as a whole. The severity of their impairments is a crucial influence, but the Labour Force Survey makes no attempt to measure it. Disabled people a…
Social Europe: Living Standards and Welfare States
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UK
This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as educat…
How can deprivation indicators help us to understand poverty
This article challenges the growing orthodoxy among analysts and makers of social policy that an index of material deprivation should be preferred to low income as a measure of poverty. Such scales are nevertheless invaluable as indicators of living standards, and can be used to improve our understanding of social exclusion, and the role of low income in that process. Income and deprivation data from seven waves of the British Household Panel Sur…
Age at first birth and disadvantage among ethnic groups in Britain
This article examines the relationship between age at first birth and poverty among ethnic minorities in Britain. It is well known that ethnic minorities, particularly Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, have very high rates of family poverty and early fertility. Because it has been established that early motherhood is associated with a high risk of poverty and other disadvantages, it is tempting to link Pakistani and Bangladeshi poverty with their earl…
Area variations in household income across Great Britain
Researchers and policy makers have long been interested in the spatial distribution of income. But we lack a balanced assessment of the extent to which the national pattern of inequality is attributable to variation between areas, or whether, on the contrary, there is wide variation between households within areas. One difficulty has been a lack of area-based incomes data. This paper uses an under-exploited source to undertake this decomposition …
Disability employment penalties in Britain
Economic disadvantage is an increasingly important component of the social position of disabled people.This article uses a large-scale and detailed survey of disabled people as an empirical platform for a discussion of their employment outcomes. It is well-established that disabled people vary in the nature and severity of their impairments, but the shape of the relationship between disability and employment cannot be predicted unambiguously from…
Ageing, income and living standards: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
In Britain, older people have lower average incomes and a higher risk of income poverty than the general population. Older pensioners are more likely to be in poverty than younger ones. Yet certain indicators of their living standards suggest that older people experience less hardship than expected, given their incomes. A possible explanation is that older people convert income into basic living standards at a higher rate than younger people, imp…
Income, Deprivation and Poverty: A Longitudinal Analysis
Indices of material deprivation are of increasing interest in Britain and the EU as potential markers of poverty, as an alternative, or complement, to measures of low income. This is the first panel regression analysis of the relationship between households' incomes and deprivation scores over time. We show a close underlying link (people with long-term low incomes report long-term deprivation), but only a weak dynamic link (people whose income i…
Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Development economics (5 works)