The Changing Distribution of Male Wages in the U.K.
利用英国家庭支出调查和综合住户调查数据，描述并解释1970年代末以来英国男性工资不平等快速上升的现象，发现教育差距扩大和入门级工资增长放缓是关键因素，且存在显著的组内工资离散度增加。
This paper uses microeconomic data from the U.K. Family Expenditure Surveys (FES) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) to describe and explain changes in the distribution of male wages. Since the late 1970s wage inequality has risen very fast in the U.K., and this rise is characterized both by increasing education and age differentials. We show that a large part of the changes in the U.K. can be summarized quite simply as increases in eduction differentials and a decline of growth of entry level wages which persist subsequently. This fact we interpret as cohort effects. We also show that, like in the U.S., an important aspect of rising wage inequality is increased within-group wage dispersion. Finally we use the GHS to evaluate the role of alternative education measures.