Charitable organisations, the Great Recession and the Age of Austerity: Longitudinal Evidence for England and Wales
Charitable organisations, the Great Recession and the Age of Austerity: Longitudinal Evidence for England and Wales
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10.1017/s0047279416000325
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2017-01-01
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Clifford, David
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作者：
Clifford, David
人们广泛关注经济衰退和随后公共开支紧缩对志愿部门的影响，但缺乏全面的全部门数据来实证研究这一点。我们构建了一个独特的纵向数据集，该数据集遵循自1999年以来英格兰和威尔士慈善组织的人口，并通过将组织的近期年收入置于长期趋势的背景下来评估经济衰退和紧缩的影响。结果首次揭示了慈善机构收入受到影响的规模：自2008年以来，收入的真实的年增长中位数连续六年为负，导致同期累积真实的收入大幅下降。中等规模的慈善机构以及那些位于贫困地区的慈善机构受到的影响最为严重，这与人们对慈善部门空心化和紧缩政策影响不均衡的担忧相一致。然而，在不同活动领域工作的慈善机构的命运也有相当大的差异。本文的分析有助于拓宽我们对大衰退和公共支出紧缩对社会政策影响的视角。
There has been extensive concern about the effect of recession and of subsequent public spending austerity on the voluntary sector - but a lack of comprehensive sector-wide data to examine this empirically. We construct a unique longitudinal dataset, which follows through time the population of charitable organisations in England and Wales since 1999, and assess the impact of recession and austerity by placing organisations' recent annual income within the context of longer-term trends. The results reveal the scale of the impact on charities' incomes for the first time: since 2008 median real annual growth in income has been negative for six consecutive years, leading to sizeable cumulative real income decline over the period. Mid-sized charities, and those in more deprived local areas, have been most significantly affected, consistent with concerns about a hollowing out' of the charitable sector and about the uneven impact of austerity. However, there has also been considerable variation in the fortunes of charities working in different fields of activity. The analysis in this paper helps to widen our perspective on the implications of the Great Recession and of public spending austerity for social policy.