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The distribution of income in the United Kingdom 1961‐96: an interim report
Author(s) -
Wyeth Ros,
Burwood Les
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00025
Subject(s) - interim , commission , foundation (evidence) , income distribution , distribution (mathematics) , kingdom , economic justice , social justice , political science , economics , law , law and economics , inequality , mathematics , mathematical analysis , paleontology , biology
It has become common wisdom that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and this idea has been propagated in misleading ways by key reports and papers such as those published by the Rowntree Foundation (1995), the Commission on Social Justice (1994) and the Fabian Society's Income and Wealth in the 1980s ‐an update (1992). We show in this paper that inappropriate and inconsistent measures of income have been used.