abstract: 'Even before the financial crisis, many developed economies were facing

  growing inequality and struggling to maintain employment and earnings.

  This paper addresses two key questions. What has happened to inequality?

  Where will tax and welfare reforms have most impact? The UK is used as a

  running example. The analysis suggests that the pattern of sluggish real

  wages at the bottom looks set to continue, and longer-term earnings

  growth will come mainly from high-skilled occupations. Growing earnings

  inequality will bring increasing pressure on the tax and welfare system.

  A blueprint for a coherent tax policy reform is presented.'
affiliation: 'Blundell, R (Corresponding Author), UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England.

  Blundell, R (Corresponding Author), Inst Fiscal Studies, London, England.

  Blundell, Richard, UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England.

  Blundell, Richard, Inst Fiscal Studies, London, England.'
author: Blundell, Richard
author_list:
- family: Blundell
  given: Richard
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/ecca.12186
eissn: 1468-0335
files: []
issn: 0013-0427
journal: ECONOMICA
keywords-plus: 'TAXABLE INCOME; LABOR; RATES; ELASTICITY; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILIES; POVERTY;

  POLICY; MICRO; MODEL'
language: English
month: APR
number: '330'
number-of-cited-references: '46'
orcid-numbers: Blundell, Richard William/0000-0003-1588-2299
pages: 201-218
papis_id: eaabc69004928e1c4065e352bae0abac
ref: Blundell2016coaselecturehuman
researcherid-numbers: Blundell, Richard William/C-1552-2008
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Coase LectureHuman Capital, Inequality and Tax Reform: Recent Past and Future
  Prospects'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000372256500001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '83'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2016'