Tag: Children

How do children of mixed partnerships fare in the UK?

January 1, 2012

How do children of mixed partnerships fare in the UK? Understanding the implications for children of parental ethnic homogamy and heterogamy evaluates the extent to which mixed parentage families are associated with circumstances (both economic and in terms of family structure) that tend to be positive or negative for children’s future life chances and how these … More How do children of mixed partnerships fare in the UK?

Children living in a workless household

April 4, 2010

Ten year transitions in children’s experience of living in a workless household: variations by ethnic group uses the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study to explore differences in risks of worklessness over time, among ethnic groups within a single cohort of children who are observed at two time points, 10 years apart. Download the article … More Children living in a workless household

Child poverty, employment and ethnicity

March 29, 2007

Child poverty, employment and ethnicity in the UK: the role and limitations of policy discusses the intersection between child poverty and ethnic minority unemployment policy by illustrating the extent of child poverty as ethnically differentiated and exploring the ways in which it is related to aspects of employment. The article goes on to consider the policy implications for … More Child poverty, employment and ethnicity

Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics

June 26, 2006

Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics uses administrative data to explore benefit dynamics for children in Britain’s second largest city, Birmingham, over the period January 1998 to June 1999. As the benefits in question (housing benefit and council tax benefit) are means tested, the dynamics are also informative about moves in and out of low income. … More Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics

Discovering child poverty

January 19, 2005

Discovering child poverty presents an overview of 200 years of investigation into and responses to the plight of poor children. It investigates attitudes to poor children 200 years ago and asks how child poverty emerged as both a quantifiable and urgent issue. The book includes chapters on children and work, education and child poverty research to provide the essential context … More Discovering child poverty

Ethnicity and inequality: British children’s experience of means-tested benefits

July 4, 2003

Ethnicity and inequality: British children’s experience of means-tested benefits explores ethnic group differences in the severity of child poverty in Britain. Using administrative data it looks at benefit receipt of families with children over a period of a year and a half. Building on existing work on ‘welfare dynamics’, but taking the child as the … More Ethnicity and inequality: British children’s experience of means-tested benefits