Unfortunately I can't read this paper, but it seems to have the opposite conclusion that you have. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01436

Unfortunately I can't read this paper, but it seems to have the opposite conclusion that you have. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143622815000351 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01436... "This paper concentrates on the 1% richest households in the UK in a comparison with the other four large Western European countries: Germany, France, Italy and Spain. In the European context the UK is an outlier of extreme inequality. " "The UK sits half way between the USA and mainland Europe in economic space. The UK levels of inequality are now huge by normal European standards, but not so huge when compared to the average levels of economic inequality experienced within the USA."