People’s earnings are determined by their skills (or ‘human capital’), and the price, or wages, of those particular skills. The rise in earnings inequality over the past few decades could reflect rising inequality in either the level of skills or in wages. Cohort studies offer a unique opportunity to understand these drivers of inequality.
Authors
![Orazio Attanasio](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Orazio_Attanasio.jpg?itok=Anbs4JXx)
Research Fellow
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
![Richard Blundell](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-03/Richard%20Blundell%20Head.jpg?itok=ow7e9OkA)
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Journal article details
- Publisher
- Bank of England
- Issue
- Volume 55, Issue 1, February 2015, pages 41-42
Suggested citation
Attanasio, O and Blundell, R. (2015). 'Human capital and inequality in the United Kingdom' 55(1/2015), pp.41–42.
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