Earnings Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Britain
估算了1827-1901年间四个年份的英国收入分布，发现不平等程度在19世纪中期前上升、之后下降，并结合财富与收入分布新证据探讨成因，为建模英国不平等史提供思路。
Although debate has raged ever since Marx and Engels openly condemned British capitalism in the 1840s, little hard evidence has been brought to bear on the issue of economic inequality. This paper estimates British earnings distributions for four years in the period 1827–1901. The evidence supports the view of increasing inequality up to mid-century and a leveling thereafter. Coupled with newly available evidence on British eighteenth- and nineteenth-century wealth and income distribution, these estimates equip us to search for explanations. A strategy for modeling British inequality history is suggested.