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We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …
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Average real UK household income has almost doubled over the past forty years. With four decades of micro-data on household incomes, and relatively simple decomposition methods, we document the contribution to this growth in the mean net household income of working-age households from different...
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This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....
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This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the … and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … inequality in per capita income. The level of inequality in Spain is more moderate when total gross household income is analysed …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession, inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
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evidence of any income-based "trajectory inequality" in either cohort, after conditioning on abilities. Among all graduation …
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interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …
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affects income and wealth inequality. We then illustrate quantitatively how various channels of transmission - net interest …
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