<p><p><p>This paper presents an analysis of the trends in inequality across income, earnings and consumption in Britain since 1978. It documents the episodic nature of inequality growth over this period largely dominated by the inequality 'boom' in earnings inequality of the 1980s. It builds a consistent picture across these key measures of inequality to provide a coherent link between the microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis of the evolution of inequality.</p></p></p>
Authors
Richard Blundell
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Ben Etheridge
Research Associate University of Essex
Ben joined the IFS in 2006 as a PhD scholar and is now a Research Associate, alongside his position as Lecturer at the University of Essex.
Journal article details
- Publisher
- University of Connecticut
- ISSN
- 1094-2025
- Issue
- January 2010
Suggested citation
Blundell, R and Etheridge, B. (2010). 'Consumption, income and earnings inequality in Britain' (2010)
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