Changes in UK Wage Inequality Over the Last Forty Years

The Labour Market in Winter: The State of Working Britain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Machin, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inequality stagnation; Labour market; Labour market polarisation; Lower tail wage; National minimum wage; Supply and demand; Upper tail wage; Wage changes; Wage distribution; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938597127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199587377.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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