Research Paper

Trends in the UK income distribution

By Stephen P. Jenkins

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Working Papers of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change
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99-22
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ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change: University of Essex

Abstract

This paper reviews trends over the last three decades in the personal distribution of income in the UK. The first section of the paper documents the trends from a number of different perspectives (inequality, poverty and real income growth). Later sections explore the causes of the large increase in income inequality in the UK between the late 1970s and the beginning of the 1990s and the halt in the increase over the subsequent five years.

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