Dear friends

Re this, two things:

1) the increased gap was *created* to order by the Thatcher-led 
government (check the Ridley Plan and the Ridley Report eg at Wikipedia) 
and then replicated elsewhere (Harris in Ontario etc) - note the 'Was 
created' as in 'were disappeared' in Chile etc.

2) This has led me to explore the "non-inflation-accelerating rate of 
unemployment" or NIARU and its equivalent "non-accelerating-inflation 
rate of unemployment" or NAIRU

Now, that latter has caused me to re-reflect upon the various 
descriptors of employment status and their measurement (unemployment, 
underemployment, over employment, inappropriate employment, etc, etc.)

Have any on-list statistical sociologists (etc) got any ways that can 
realistically measure such data? And/or have they ever been done?

Love

john

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Dennis Raphael wrote:

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> *Our unequal society*
> *Fiona Godlee*, */editor/ BMJ 2007;334 (3 March 2007), 
> doi:10.1136/bmj.39140.571759.43 *
>
> Available online at: _http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7591/0_
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> "…….Back in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher was confidently 
> asserting^ that there was no such thing as society, researchers 
> ploughing^ the unfashionable furrow of health inequalities must have 
> despaired^ of ever being heard. Things have moved on since then, 
> though^ not perhaps as far as we might have hoped. There is now good^ 
> evidence, some of it published in the /BMJ/ (1999;319:953) that^ the 
> healthiest and happiest societies are those with the most^ equal 
> distribution of income. And compared even with a decade^ ago, when 
> wider issues such as poverty and housing were excluded^ from 
> discussion (/BMJ/ 1995;311:1177), governments have become^ braver 
> about embracing these social issues when talking about^ health. The 
> 2004 Wanless report showed that the British government^ is taking 
> seriously the need to take action to reduce health^ inequalities.^
> But the reality lags far behind. In 2005 George Davey-Smith^ and 
> colleagues looked at health inequalities in the UK (/BMJ/^ 
> 2005;330:1016, doi: _10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1016_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1016>) They 
> concluded^ that, despite government promises of action, inequalities 
> in^ life expectancy have continued to widen, alongside widening^ 
> inequalities in income and wealth. Last month's Unicef report^ has put 
> unwelcome flesh on the bones of this evidence, ranking^ Britain bottom 
> among the 21 most developed nations in terms^ of the wellbeing of our 
> children, while countries with more^ equal wealth distribution, most 
> notably the Netherlands, can^ celebrate happy healthy children who are 
> not living in a climate^ of fear. As with health care, the 
> individualistic, market forces^ and US model—that potent mix of 
> individualism, market^ forces, and illiberal social policies—does not 
> look like^ the one that countries should follow. Instead the evidence 
> points^ towards the benefits of liberal policies on drugs and sex, 
> and^ comprehensive social welfare…..".^
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> *Related Articles*
> *Housing and health*
> Hilary Thomson and Mark Petticrew
> BMJ 2007 334: 434-435. _[Extract]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/334/7591/434> _[Full Text]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7591/434>
> *Britney tears*
> Des Spence
> BMJ 2007 334: 478. _[Extract]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/334/7591/478> _[Full Text]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7591/478>
> *Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster 
> randomised study in the community*
> Philippa Howden-Chapman, Anna Matheson, Julian Crane, Helen Viggers, 
> Malcolm Cunningham, Tony Blakely, Chris Cunningham, Alistair Woodward, 
> Kay Saville-Smith, Des O'Dea, Martin Kennedy, Michael Baker, Nick 
> Waipara, Ralph Chapman, and Gabrielle Davie
> BMJ 2007 334: 460. _[Abstract]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/334/7591/460> _[Full Text]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7591/460>
> *Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with 
> real progress*
> Mary Shaw, George Davey Smith, and Danny Dorling
> BMJ 2005 330: 1016-1021. _[Extract]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/330/7498/1016> _[Full Text]_ 
> <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7498/1016>
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