Flat-lining or seething beneath the surface? Two decades of changing economic inequality in the UK
分析了1995-96年以来二十年英国经济不平等的变化，发现总体变化不大，但经济危机后不平等的性质和深度改变，年轻一代在第二个十年中明显受损，部分群体被抛在后面。
Abstract This paper analyses what happened to economic inequalities in the United Kingdom in the two decades from 1995–6. In aggregate, inequality changes were unremarkable, especially by comparison with sharp increases in the 1980s. However, over the first decade economic outcomes improved across population groups, while over the second near-stagnation accompanied continuing high inequality. We show that the apparent stability of inequality in this period masked the way in which the nature and depth of economic inequalities changed after the economic crisis, leading to substantial differences between and within groups defined in different ways. Pervasively, younger adults lost out in the second decade compared to older ones. When population groups are defined in other ways (such as region, housing tenure, or ethnicity) patterns are more complex, but with the worst-off in particular groups often being ‘left behind’.