Stephen Jenkins

Stephen P. Jenkins, Professor of Economic and Social Policy at the London School of Economics, Visiting Professor at the University of Essex, and a Research Fellow at IZA, presented the 2015 LIS Summer Lecture: “To what extent has income inequality increased? Some data issues”.

Stephen Jenkins has examined trends in inequality and poverty, income mobility and poverty dynamics, labour supply and social security benefit receipt. He has co-authored numerous books including Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, and most recently The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Incomes.

July 28, 2015 | Lecture Series