The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate … whether monetary policy shocks played a role in explaining this increase in inequality. We find that contractionary monetary …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …