TY - BOOK ID - 84541834 TI - Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975–99 PY - 2002 SN - 1462308678 145272606X 1281369993 9786613779458 1451893426 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Women''s Studies' KW - Wage Level and Structure KW - Wage Differentials KW - Employment KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - Economics of Gender KW - Non-labor Discrimination KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Gender studies KW - women & girls KW - Income inequality KW - Wage adjustments KW - Women KW - National accounts KW - Gender KW - Income distribution KW - Economic theory KW - United Kingdom KW - Income economics KW - Women & girls KW - Women's Studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84541834 AB - This paper provides evidence that cross-sectional wage inequality in the U.K. rose sharply in the 1980s, continued to rise moderately through the mid-1990s and has remained essentially unchanged since then. As in the U.S., increases in within-group inequality account for a substantial fraction of the rise in wage dispersion during 1975-99. Compositional shifts in the occupational and industry structures of aggregate employment are also shown to have had important effects on the evolution of wage inequality. The convergence of the wage distributions for men and women has, however, had a stabilizing effect on the overall wage distribution. ER -