Gosling, Amanda; Machin, Steve; Meghir, Costas - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 1998
This paper uses microeconomic data from the UK Family Expenditure Surveys (FES) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) to describe and explain changes in the distribution of male wages. Since the late 1970s wage inequality has risen very fast in the UK, and this rise is characterised both by...