Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2017-18 to 2021-22

Hood, Andrew; Waters, Tom

doi:10.1920/re.ifs.2017.0136

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“…It is the first time that life expectancy comes to a long-term halt in the UK. It is also the first time in at least fifty years that real median incomes in the UK have stagnated for 10 years and fallen below their historical growth rate to an unprecedented extent, while income inequalities and child poverty especially among workless households are on the rise [21]…”

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Austerity, socioeconomic inequalities and stalling life expectancy in the UK: Two parallel stories or one?

Demakakos

2019

Maturitas

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May you live in interesting times (Chinese proverb)Undoubtedly, we live in interesting times. The 2008 economic crisis and feeble recovery from it, regional wars, global inequalities, international migration flows and subsequent political changes have changed our world in quite a dramatic way. One of the major changes many European countries have experienced in the 2010s is a slowdown in life expectancy improvement.[1] The decades-long steady improvement in life expectancy in the western world seems no longer to be the case. An extreme example is the USA, where life expectancy declined over three consecutive years between 2014 and 2017. [2,3]

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Austerity, socioeconomic inequalities and stalling life expectancy in the UK: Two parallel stories or one?

Demakakos

2019

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The Distributional Impact of Tax and Social Security Reforms in the UK from 2010 to 2017

Reed¹

2020

Social Policy and Society

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This article presents the results from a cumulative impact assessment of the distribution of tax and social security reforms in the UK since the 2010 general election. The analysis covers the 2010-15 and 2015-17 parliaments plus measures announced in the Autumn 2017 Budget. The article finds that taken as a whole, reforms since 2010 have had a regressive impact across the household income distribution, with average losses of around 10 per cent of net income in the bottom fifth of the distribution, compared to roughly a zero impact in the top three deciles. I also analyse results by a number of Equality Act protected characteristics including ethnicity, disability, gender, single/couple status and the number of children in the household. Lone parent families lose out more than any other demographic group while Pakistani and Bangladeshi adults lose out more than any other ethnic group. The reforms also have particular negative impacts on disabled people, on low income women and on households with children.

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Early-life socioeconomic position and the accumulation of health-related deficits by midlife in the 1958 British birth cohort study

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Reducing population levels of frailty is an important goal and preventing its development in mid-adulthood could be pivotal. Childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with a myriad of adult health outcomes but evidence is limited on associations with frailty. Using 1958 British birth cohort data (N=8711), we aimed to: (i) establish the utility of measuring frailty in mid-life, by examining associations between a 34-item frailty index at 50y (FI50y) and mortality over an eight-year follow-up period and (ii) examine associations between early-life SEP and FI50y and investigate whether these associations were explained by adult SEP. Hazard ratios (HRs) for mortality increased with increasing levels of frailty, e.g., HRsex-adjusted was 4.07(95% CI:2.64,6.25) for highest vs. lowest fifth of FI50y. Lower early-life SEP was associated with higher FI50y: per unit decrease in early-life SEP (on a 4-point scale), FI50y increased by 12.7%(10.85%,14.6%) in a model adjusted for early-life covariates. After additional adjustment for adult occupational class and education, the association attenuated to 5.71%(3.71%,7.70%). Findings suggest that early-life SEP is associated with frailty and that adult SEP only partially explains this association. Results highlight the importance of improving socioeconomic circumstances across the life course to reduce inequalities in frailty from mid-adulthood.

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Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2017-18 to 2021-22

Cited by 13 publications

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Austerity, socioeconomic inequalities and stalling life expectancy in the UK: Two parallel stories or one?

Austerity, socioeconomic inequalities and stalling life expectancy in the UK: Two parallel stories or one?

The Distributional Impact of Tax and Social Security Reforms in the UK from 2010 to 2017

Early-life socioeconomic position and the accumulation of health-related deficits by midlife in the 1958 British birth cohort study

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