According to the Dublin Foundation for the Improvement of
Living and Working Conditions, the EU’s agency for life at work, the UK has the
worst GINI coefficient of any EU member state. GINI measures the distribution
of income among a nation’s residents and is one of the most commonly used
indicators of inequality.
The UK has the highest level of wage inequality in
the whole EU with a Gini index of 0.404 in 2011, making it fractionally more
unequal than even the US.
The UK is remarkable for
its polarisation: it accounts for a very significant portion (nearly half) of
the top 1% of wage earners in the EU,
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