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Poverty and Inequality: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Jonathan Portes
Jonathan Portes*
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National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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The themed section of this Review includes four papers that look, through different lenses, at the evolution of the UK income distribution — the components and dynamics of income over time. Each contains significant new contributions to our understanding; taken together with other contributions to this literature, they paint a much richer picture of this issue, and provide some pointers about what we should be looking for in the future.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 218 , October 2011 , pp. R1 - R6
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Copyright © 2011 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Richard Dickens, Rebecca Riley and Hilary Metcalf for comments. The usual disclaimer applies.

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