Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65916 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2012-17
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
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

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