Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21431 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 510
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses micro data from the New Earnings Survey to document that cross-sectional wage inequality in the U.K., which rose sharply in the 1980s and continued to rise moderately through the mid-1990s, has remained essentially unchanged in the latter half of the 1990s. As in the U.S., changes in within-group inequality are shown to account for a substantial fraction of the rise in wage dispersion that has occurred over the last 25 years. However, shifts in the structure of employment – including changes in the occupational and industrial composition of aggregate employment – are also shown to have had important effects on the evolution of wage inequality. In addition, there has been a significant convergence of the wage distributions for men and women; this has had a stabilizing effect on the overall wage distribution.
Subjects: 
cross-sectional wage inequality
micro survey data
between- and within-group inequality
composition effects
JEL: 
E24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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