01666cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF008072 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451846225 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Prasad, Eswar. Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99 / Eswar Prasad. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002. 1 online resource (30 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/042 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2002/042/001.2002.issue-042-en.xml IMF e-Library