In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax … with a threshold set at the 99th or 95th percentile (depending on year). Conclusions about aggregate UK inequality trends …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality - that it has changed little over the … last 30 years - and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality … measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality aversion, relative versus absolute inequality, and inequality of …