Accounting for Changes in Income Inequality: Decomposition Analyses for the UK, 1978–2008
分析了英国1978至2009年收入不平等的变化，发现工资不平等持续上升，但投资和养老金收入不平等下降，且低收入家庭收入趋同，解释了不平等先升后稳的原因。
Abstract We analyse income inequality in the UK from 1978 to 2009 in order to understand why income inequality rose very rapidly from 1978 to 1991 but then remained broadly unchanged. We find that inequality in earnings among employees has risen fairly steadily since 1978, but other factors that caused income inequality to rise before 1991 have since gone into reverse. Inequality in investment and pension income has fallen since 1991, as has inequality between those with and without employment. Furthermore, certain household types – notably the elderly and those with young children – which had relatively low incomes in the period to 1991 have seen their incomes converge with others.