that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary … poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of … corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century … deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904. Applying Bowley's poverty line we find that … close to Rowntree's estimate of primary poverty for York 1899 and in the range that Bowley found in Northern towns in 1912 …

available online at University of Sussex, The Global Income Inequality Project. In Appendix 1 we offer a synopsis of the history ….Our final work is to model the progress of inequality, as reflected in Gini coefficients, 90/10 and 50/10 percentile ratios in … the region. We find that the bulk of the measured rise is inequality from the 1930s to the 1960s is due to changing survey …

data. Our central finding is that inequality among working households does not follow the general downward trend in … inequality for the early part of the century found in labour share and top income studies. Contrary to Kuznets' prediction, our … evidence suggests that on average income inequality among European working households remained stable for three generations …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

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 …

This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was … similar in magnitude to the much-studied increase in British wage inequality during the 1980s. Using data from the Polish …