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| Title: | | Accounting for changes in income inequality: Decomposition analyses for Great Britain, 1968 - 2009  |
| Authors: | | Brewer, Mike Wren-Lewis, Liam |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ISER Working Paper Series 2012-17 |
| 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. |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex
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