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The end of destitution: evidence from urban British working households 1904-37

机译:贫困的终结:1904-37年英国城市劳动家庭的证据

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We estimate the reduction, almost to elimination, of absolute poverty among working households in urban Britain between 1904 and 1937. We exploit two recently-digitized data sets. The paper presents a statistical generalization, to working families in the whole of urban Britain, of the poverty decline found in the town studies by, amongst other, Bowley and Rowntree. We offer corroborative evidence and perform a simulated decomposition of the poverty reduction into its proximate causes. The two most important causes were the rise, 1904-37, of about 30% in real wages on the one hand and the reduction of one-third in the number of people in the average household over the same period. Between them, these two changes imply a near doubling of the income per capita of an average household supported by a worker on the average wage. We conclude with a discussion of deeper causes.
机译:我们估算了1904年至1937年英国城市劳动家庭中绝对贫困的减少程度,甚至将其消除了。我们利用了两个最近数字化的数据集。本文对Bowley和Rowntree等在城镇研究中发现的贫困下降情况进行了统计归纳,向整个英国城市的工作家庭进行了统计。我们提供确凿的证据,并对减贫进行模拟分解,将其分解为最直接的原因。两个最重要的原因是,一方面是1904-37年实际工资上涨了约30%,另一方面是同期平均家庭人数减少了三分之一。在这两者之间,这两个变化意味着由工人支持的平均家庭的平均工资的人均收入几乎翻了一番。最后,我们讨论了更深层次的原因。

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  • 来源
    《Oxford Economic Papers》 |2012年第1期|p.80-102|共23页
  • 作者

    Ian Gazeley; Andrew Newell;

  • 作者单位

    Department of History, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN;

    Department of Economics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RF;

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