@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp510,
            	author={Prasad, Eswar},
            	title={Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99},
            	year={2002},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={510},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp510},
	abstract={This paper uses micro data from the New Earnings Survey to document that cross-sectional
wage inequality in the U.K., which rose sharply in the 1980s and continued to rise moderately
through the mid-1990s, has remained essentially unchanged in the latter half of the 1990s.
As in the U.S., changes in within-group inequality are shown to account for a substantial
fraction of the rise in wage dispersion that has occurred over the last 25 years. However,
shifts in the structure of employment – including changes in the occupational and industrial
composition of aggregate employment – are also shown to have had important effects on the
evolution of wage inequality. In addition, there has been a significant convergence of the
wage distributions for men and women; this has had a stabilizing effect on the overall wage
distribution.},
	keywords={micro survey data;cross-sectional wage inequality;between- and within-group inequality;composition effects},
            }