Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 15, 2016
Summary:
We analyse income inequality in the UK from 1978 to 2009 in order to understand why income inequality rose very rapidly from 1978 to 1991 but then remained broadly unchanged. We find that inequality in earnings among employees has risen fairly steadily since 1978, but other factors that caused income inequality to rise before 1991 have since gone into reverse. 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 the period to 1991 have seen their incomes converge with others.
Published in
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 78 , p.289 -322
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obes.12113
ISSN
3059049
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