Abigail McKnight is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics. She has researched many aspects of inequality and disadvantage, mainly related to the labour market. This has spanned research on low wage employment, evaluation of active labour market programmes, earnings inequality and mobility through to the graduate labour market and more recently household wealth. She is a co-editor of two recently published volumes covering the findings from a major international study of inequality, examining trends, impacts and policy effectiveness across thirty countries spanning a period of thirty years Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries and Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries; both published by OUP 2014.