Journal Description Editorial Committee How to Subscribe Forthcoming Articles Staff Papers Archive Copyright Information Research at the IMF United Kingdom and the IMF Free Email Notification Receive emails when we post new
items of interest to you.
|
|
|
|
Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975–99 Eswar S. Prasad Full Text of this Article (PDF 133K) Abstract:
U.K. cross-sectional wage inequality rose sharply in the 1980s, continued to rise moderately through the mid-1990s, and has remained essentially unchanged since then. As in the U.S., increases in within-group inequality account for a substantial fraction of the rise in wage dispersion during the period 1975–99. Compositional shifts in the occupational and industry structures of aggregate employment also had important effects on the evolution of wage inequality. The convergence of the wage distributions for men and women has, however, had a stabilizing effect on the overall wage distribution. .
|
