Low Pay and Income in Urban and Rural Areas: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Gilbert, Alana; Phimister, Euan; Theodossiou, Ioannis

doi:10.1080/0042098032000084569

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“…However, some attempt should be made to gain a reasonably representative sample of disabled people, as well as those earning up to or less than 60% of national median income. As in previous studies on in-work poverty, a good sample would reflect, for example, low levels of work intensity (Fraser, 2011), a balance between geographical location of participants (Gilbert et al, 2003), and jobs reflecting lower and middle skilled occupations known to characterise in-work poverty (Scottish Government, 2015).…”

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The intersection of disability and in-work poverty in an advanced industrial nation: The lived experience of multiple disadvantage in a post-financial crisis UK

Richards

Sang

2018

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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The 2007–2008 financial crisis has affected the prospects for workers in a range of ways. In-work poverty represents just one, yet key feature of how prospects for workers have changed in recent times. In-work poverty disproportionately impacts on marginalised groups, such as the disabled. Current research reveals little about how disability and poverty intersect in the context of employment. To address this oversight, life history interviews were conducted with disabled people in in-work poverty. The findings were analysed using the social model of disability and the lens of intersectionality. The results highlight how government policies, employer practices and household finances impact on disabled workers’ lived experience of in-work poverty. The findings suggest that governments and employers can do more to reduce barriers to escaping in-work poverty for disabled workers.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The intersection of disability and in-work poverty in an advanced industrial nation: The lived experience of multiple disadvantage in a post-financial crisis UK

Richards

Sang

2018

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…a difference in the wage of identical people in identical jobs across regions. Gilbert et al (2003) found that, after adjusting for observable characteristics, urban wages were significantly less than those in accessible rural areas but more than in remote rural areas. One explanation for nominal wage differences is variation in the cost of living between the rural and urban areas.…”

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Rural Labour Markets: The Welsh Example

Jones

2004

Local Economy

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This paper examines the rural labour market within Wales over the last decade. Data from the Labour Force Survey and the New Earnings Survey are used to compare trends in economic activity rates, employment, education and earnings in rural Wales with the rest of the country. In addition to the rural-urban comparison, evidence presented from other rural labour market studies is used to establish similarities between the rural labour market within Wales and the rest of the UK. In this respect, the paper collects evidence from which the need for differential labour market policy between the rural and urban area can be assessed.

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“…Using the British Household Panel Survey data for 1991-98, Gilbert et al (2003Gilbert et al ( , pp. 1218 observed that "urban wages are significantly higher than remote rural wages, even after adjustments were made for differences in characteristics such as education and industrial structure".…”

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Earnings Outcomes in Metropolitan and Regional Labour Markets– A Gender-Based Analysis for New South Wales and Victoria

Hicks¹,

Mallik

Basu³

2018

Proceedings of the 38th International Academic Conference, Prague

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It is generally accepted that the key characteristics of labour markets in Australian capital cities differ from those of the labour markets in the rest of Australia although labour market policy is typically conducted at the national level without taking regional differences into account. Gender issues have frequently been highlighted in the many analyses of urban Australian labour markets. Other studies have focused on the urban-regional dichotomy of the labour market. However, although studies of labour market features and outcomes in Australia have focused on issues related to location or gender, they rarely address both. This paper seeks to establish if discrimination by gender differs between regional and urban communities in the Australian context. The conceptual framework used in this research is in the tradition of human capital analysis. We first analyse, separately, determinants of hourly wage rates and weekly incomes by gender in Australian metropolitan cities and regional areas. We then utilise the Blinder-Oaxaca procedure, to decompose the mean outcome differences between men and women within a region into that part that is 'explained' by gender differences in endowments and that part which remains unexplained by such differences and which therefore provides a measure of discrimination. The data is drawn from individual level confidentialised unit record files (CURF) data of the 2006 Australian Census. Gender-based analysis is conducted for each region, Sydney, regional NSW, Melbourne and regional Victoria, with a view to discerning if the impact of the determinants vary spacially. The research confirmed that gender plays an important role in influencing labour market outcomes. The research also identified a number of factors that impact on both hourly wages and weekly earnings and assessed how these factors impacted differently for men and women across metropolitan and regional areas. The results indicate that, in general, differences exist between men and women in hourly wage rate and weekly income earned. The determinants of these differences varied between metropolitan cities and regional areas. With respect to issues of gender discrimination in employment, the use of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique confirmed the presence of discrimination against women in all regions. Wage discrimination is more pronounced in metropolitan areas whilst discrimination in weekly earnings is more important in non-metropolitan areas. The latter discrimination is likely to reflect both fewer job opportunities for women and a lower ownership of income earning assets by women.

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Low Pay and Income in Urban and Rural Areas: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

The intersection of disability and in-work poverty in an advanced industrial nation: The lived experience of multiple disadvantage in a post-financial crisis UK

The intersection of disability and in-work poverty in an advanced industrial nation: The lived experience of multiple disadvantage in a post-financial crisis UK

Rural Labour Markets: The Welsh Example

Earnings Outcomes in Metropolitan and Regional Labour Markets– A Gender-Based Analysis for New South Wales and Victoria

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