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What explains the growth in ‘never-worked’ households?
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Rosso, A
Gaffney, D
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Labour, Employment and WagesReport to
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/what-explains-growth-never-worked-households
This research investigates what drove the substantial increase in 'never-worked' households between 1996-2005.
The number of homes where no one has ever worked has doubled in little more than a decade. But is this a sign of growing ‘welfare dependency’ or the result of other factors? This report looks at the characteristics of ‘never-worked’ households and considers the possible reasons for the increase.
It finds that most never-worked household are lone parent households and younger single people; there is little or no evidence of a problem of ‘intergenerational worklessness’.
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