Gosling, Amanda; Machin, Stephen; Meghir, Costas - In: Review of Economic Studies 67 (2000) 4, pp. 635-66
This paper uses microeconomic data from the U.K. 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 U.K., and this rise is characterized both...