Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173959 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. W17/01
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively "inclusive" growth from 1997-2004 and the Great Recession. We focus on the middle 90%, where trends have contrasted strongly with the "new inequality" at the very top. Household earnings inequality has risen, driven by male earnings - although a 'catch-up' of female earnings did hold down individual earnings inequality and reduce within-household inequality. Nevertheless, net household income inequality fell due to deliberate increases in redistribution, the tax and transfer system's insurance role during the Great Recession, falling household worklessness, and rising pensioner incomes.
Subjects: 
inequality
labour market
household earnings
social security
JEL: 
D31
E24
J3
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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