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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 …
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inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …
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We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …
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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 …
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processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between …
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UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics, and the academic research that influenced them, and...
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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 …
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