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标题：Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes (published in Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 13 (2006), pp. 3-30)
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作者：Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay ; Frank A Cowell
期刊名称：Japanese Studies Programme Papers
出版年度：2006
出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" within the context of income mobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UK using Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Study and find that, of three different types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wide aggregate shocks have the greatest impact on consumption, in comparison to shocks to the income stream