Inequality and the very rich: what do we know?

On 5 November 2019 from 10:00 to 13:00

Broadway House

<p>Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NQ</p>

At this event, speakers will set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers will look at trends in the share of national income that goes to very high earners, the characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution, the importance of income from capital gains, and what we know about wealth inequality.

You can download the slides from this event here.

At this event, speakers set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers looked at trends in the share of national income that goes to very high earners, the characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution, the importance of income from capital gains, and what we know about wealth inequality.

Speakers included:

Mike Brewer, Professor of Economics at the University of Essex

Robert Joyce, Deputy Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Carys Roberts, Chief Economist at IPPR

Karen Rowlingson, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham

Andrew Summers, Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of Economics

This event is part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science. It is supported by the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the University of Essex, and by the Institute for Fiscal Studies through their ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.