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Squeezed middle battles financial pain

20 March 2013

These phenomena have helped to change the pattern of inequality since the turn of the century, says Steve Machin, research director at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. During the 1980s and 1990s, he says, both the top and the bottom of the earnings distribution "fell away from the middle".

This article was printed in the Financial Times on March 20, 2013
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Stephen Machin webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage
Stephen Machin CEP publications webpage

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