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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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Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....
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a rising inequality in wages – mostly through rapid earnings increases among top earners - this has been offset by …This paper analyses income, wealth and earnings inequality in Australia, using the Household, Income and Labour … Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey as the primary source of data. Income inequality in Australia has risen in the last two …
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We find that each of the past four generations of Americans was better off than the previous one, using a post-tax, post-transfer income measure constructed annually from 1963-2022 based on the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real...
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We find that each of the past four generations of Americans was better off than the previous one, using a post-tax, post-transfer income measure constructed annually from 1963-2022 based on the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470010
? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …
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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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In this paper we want to provide an utopian attempt to tackle inequality and to tackle, most specifically, what we … consider the cultural and ethical origin of inequality: paid work. We believe that a globalised world, structured around the … the UK. Our main findings suggest that UII has a positive effect on inequality an almost null effect on poverty and strong …
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This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
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