Accounting for changes in income inequality: decomposition analyses for Great Britain, 1968-2009
"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 inequalit...
Main Authors: | Brewer, Mike, Wren-Lewis, Liam |
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Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
Format: | TEXT |
Language: | English |
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Colchester
2012
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Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19132512124919507949-accounting-for-changes-in-inco.htm |
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