Accounting for Changes in Income Inequality
Decomposition Analyses for the UK, 1978–2008
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19040758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Brewer (0000-0003-0759-0384, Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ UK, corresponding author), Liam Wren‐Lewis (0000-0003-3739-5328, Paris School of Economics 48 Boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-322 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-9049 • E-ISSN: 1468-0084 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/obes.12113 |
| OpenAlex | W2167042285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 36 |
We analyse income inequality in the UK from 1978 to 2009 in order to understand why income inequality rose very rapidly from 1978 to 1991 but then remained broadly unchanged. We find that inequality in earnings among employees has risen fairly steadily since 1978, but other factors that caused income inequality to rise before 1991 have since gone into reverse. 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 the period to 1991 have seen their incomes converge with others
Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic inequality · Economics · Income distribution · Income inequality metrics · Inequality · Labour economics · Pension · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 2,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |