Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Brewer, Mike
Author-Name: Wren-Lewis, Liam
Title: Accounting for changes in income inequality: decomposition analyses for Great Britain, 1968-2009
Abstract: 
We analyse income inequality in Great Britain over the period 1968-2009 in order to understand why income inequality rose very rapidly over the period 1978-91 and then stopped rising. We find that earnings inequality has risen fairly steadily since 1978, but other factors that caused inequality to rise in 1978-91 have since reversed. Inequality in investment and pension income has fallen since 1991, as has inequality between those with and without employment. Furthermore, certain household types – notably the elderly and those with young children – which had relatively low incomes in 1978-91 have seen their incomes converge with others.

Creation-Date: 20120829
Number: 2012-17
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2012-17.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2012-17