Seebohm Rowntree And The Postwar Poverty Puzzle
Seebohm Rowntree And The Postwar Poverty Puzzle
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西博姆·朗特里和战后贫困之谜
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2000
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R. Bailey
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T. Hatton;R. Bailey
在1950年对约克进行的第三次社会调查中，西博姆·朗特里报告说，自1936年以来，贫困家庭的比例急剧下降。他将这一下降的大部分归因于战争期间和战后实施的政府福利改革。一些观察家对这些惊人的结果感到不安，特别是随着20世纪60年代贫困的重新发现。在本文中，我们重新检查了1950年调查的幸存记录，使贫困线与1936年的贫困线更加一致，并更密切地关注收入的测量。我们还重新评估了福利改革对工人阶级贫困的影响。我们发现，与最初报告的情况相比，约克的贫困率要高得多，而福利改革的贡献要小得多。这些发现表明，贝弗里奇时代福利改革的影响不那么乐观。
In his third social survey of York carried out in 1950, Seebohm Rowntree reported a steep decline since 1936 of the percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about these striking results, especially with the rediscovery of poverty in the 1960s. In this paper we re-examine the surviving records from the 1950 survey, making the poverty line more consistent with that of 1936 and looking more closely at the measurement of income. We also re-assess the impact of welfare reforms on working class poverty. We find that poverty in York was significantly higher, and the contribution of welfare reform substantially less, than was originally reported. These findings suggest a less optimistic view of the impact of welfare reforms during the Beveridge era.