Wednesday, 10 September 2008

1. Sources on inequality

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal_wealth/menu.htm

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1005

Gini co-efficient. http://imomus.livejournal.com/113269.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

John Evans TUAC presentation

Real World Economic Outlook

DWP

Inland Revenue

World Wealth Report - Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young
http://www.us.capgemini.com/worldwealthreport08/ - reports available 1996 - 2008

Recent trends in wealth ownership 1983 - 1998 - working paper no. 300 by Edward N Wolf, Jerome Levy Economics Institute, April 2000
Edward Wolff at NYU has done some later work on this, discussed here http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

J. Banks, Z. Smitha nd M. Wakefield 'The Distribution of financial wealth in the UK: Evidence from the 2000 BHPS Data' - Institute of Fiscal Studies WP 02/21

UN University data sets on income inequality
http://www.wider.unu.edu/research/Database/en_GB/database/

UNDP country by country inequality indicators
http://hdrstats.undp.org/indicators/145.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1763410.stm

Bottom 5th pay greater proportion of income in taxes than top 5th - UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/may/18/politics.socialexclusion

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