%0 Report
        %A Prasad, Eswar
        %T Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99
        %D 2002
        %8 2002 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 510
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp510
        %X 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.
        %K micro survey data
%K cross-sectional wage inequality
%K between- and within-group inequality
%K composition effects