 Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975–99No 2002/042, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund Abstract: This paper provides evidence that cross-sectional wage inequality in the U.K. rose sharply in the 1980s, continued to rise moderately through the mid-1990s and has remained essentially unchanged since then. As in the U.S., increases in within-group inequality account for a substantial fraction of the rise in wage dispersion during 1975-99. Compositional shifts in the occupational and industry structures of aggregate employment are also shown to have had important effects on the evolution of wage inequality. The convergence of the wage distributions for men and women has, however, had a stabilizing effect on the overall wage distribution. Keywords: WP; wage inequality; wage distribution; gender wage gap; log wage; wage dispersion; wage residual; wage and earnings distribution; micro survey data; between- and within-group inequality; composition effects; wage growth; wage variable; Income inequality; Wages; Employment; Wage adjustments; Women; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2002/042 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC USA. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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