TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Atkinson, Anthony B.
AU  - Jenkins, Stephen P.
        TI  - A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality
        PY  - 2018/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11884
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11884
        AB  - This paper scrutinizes the conventional wisdom about trends in UK income inequality and also places contemporary inequality in a much longer historical perspective. We combine household survey and income tax data to provide better coverage of all income ranges from the bottom to the very top. We make a case for studying distributions of income between tax units (i.e. not assuming the full income sharing that goes with the use of the household as the unit of analysis) for reasons of principle as well as data harmonization. We present evidence that income inequality in the UK is as least as high today as it was just before the start of World War 2.
        KW  - income tax data
KW  - Gini coefficient
KW  - household
KW  - tax unit
KW  - inequality
KW  - household survey data
        ER  -