The British study, led by Richard Blundell and Jonathan Cribb, provides new information on trends in inequalities in the United Kingdom using carefully harmonised data.
Questions that this work sheds light on include: How have labour market and income inequalities changed in recent decades, and how do they differ between people with different levels of education, between men and women? Which inequalities have increased and which have declined? How are they related to changes in labour market institutions, taxes and state transfers, and social changes? Answering these questions comprehensively requires a cross-national perspective, examining trends not only in one country, but documenting the experience of a range of different countries.
The report “Inequality in the United Kingdom: 1968 –2021” analyses economic inequalities in coherent framework, which can be easily compared to, and read alongside, other similar report produced for other countries in this project.
In addition as part of this project, some of the UK team have written a short report analysing changes in housing costs and the importance of housing costs in understanding income inequalities in the UK.
The report
Inequality in the United Kingdom: 1968-2021 by Richard Blundell, Jonathan Cribb, Tom Wernham and Xiaowei Xu
Housing costs report
Housing costs and income inequality in the UK by Jonathan Cribb, Tom Wernham and Xiaowei Xu
