For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …

British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status … differentials are minor once the presence of dependent children and the level of alternative income are controlled. Earning power is … best paying occupation, not necessarily that current or most recent, on the grounds that mature women workers are often …

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … and the cyclical fluctuations in income inequality. The rise in income inequality was stronger at the bottom of the … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … the panel if the unhealthy are more likely to drop out of the sample. Using cross-sectional variations in income and …