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We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively … 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 …
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2016, to estimate the impact of the reform on women's incomes, income poverty rates and measures of material deprivation … for lower-income women. These reductions in income lead to the absolute income poverty rate of women aged 60-62, who are … now under the state pension age, increasing by 6.4 percentage points. However, the increased risk of poverty does not …
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is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …
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