We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …

We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

wages as well as working and absence hours, is used to assess the impact of such downward adjustment on wage inequality and …

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten … to between-industry earnings inequality. The rise of employment in mega firms is concentrated in the thirty industries … that dominate rising earnings inequality. Among these industries, earnings differentials for the mega firms relative to …

capital augmenting technological progress on the distribution of income and wage inequality. This paper attempts to fill this … explains rising inequality. Our results also underline the existence of capital-skill complementarity: firms with higher …