David Johnson and Roger Wilkins show that there was a significant increase in private income inequality over the 1980s and 1990s.The increase in dispersion for disposable income was modest, however, implying that taxes and transfers acted to mitigate the increases in inequality emanating from changes in private income. Changes in the distribution of work across...

In Policy Research Paper 26, the authors explore the meaning and relevance of community and social capital drawing on a wide range of disciplines, in particular economics. The review suggests four key principles for measuring community strength and social capital: * distinguish between the structure (size, density) of community networks and their content (norms of...