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Social Exclusion


Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin - the authors of Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America a study sponsored by the Sutton Trust looking at life chances of British children with those in other advanced countries.

Social exclusion is a shorthand term for what can happen when people or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health and family breakdown. CEP research is active in many areas of social exclusion.

For instance DP579: by Steve Nickell has investigated the relationship between poverty and worklessness in Britain. Richard Dickens and David Ellwood's paper, DP506: Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work compared trends in child poverty in Britain and the US.

Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin, have investigated social mobility, while John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth have looked into the 'digital divide' in DP526:Give PC's a Chance: Personal Computer Ownership and the Digital Divide in the United States and Great Britain

CEP's work on workless households is influential and continues. While the overall employment rate may have been rising, the increasing polarization of work across households means that the proportion of households with no-one in work is rising. One factor has been teenage motherhood, investigated by Arnaud Chevalier and Tarja Viitanen in DP516: The Long-Run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Britain.

Life-chances are heavily influenced by what happens in childhood. The UK has a high incidence of child poverty and the Blair government has prioritized its reduction. Leon Feinstein's DP443: The Relative Economic Importance of Academic, Psychological and Behavioural Attributes Developed on Chilhood considers the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten to predict later, economic outcomes.

The characteristics of the neighbourhood where one lives also has a powerful effect on life chances. CEP researchers are involved in evaluating the effect of neighbourhoods on those who live there.

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