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 …

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …. Thus capital income accounts for a large part of disparity in all three countries. -- Inequality ; capital income ; factor …

inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 ….7%-0.9% higher inequality in all three countries. However, in the 2000s, whereas the inequality-employment sensitivity ratio slightly …

estimation and inference. Using these methods and data from the British Household Panel Survey, we study individual income growth …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment …

on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to …