Summary information

Study title

In search of smoking guns: What makes income inequality vary over time in different countries?

Creator

Gustafsson, Björn (Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg)
Johansson, Mats (Institute for Future Studies)

Study number / PID

snd0802-1-1.0 (SND)

https://doi.org/10.5878/001112 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Information about GDP per capita; GDP growth; total public expenditure as percent of GDP; percent public consumption; gini coefficient for equivalent disposable income; percent imports from developing countries; inflation; percent social security transfers; percent unionized; percent unemployed; female labor force participation rate; percent employed in industry; percent employed in agriculture; percent employed in service sector; percent of population aged 0-14 years; percent of population aged 15-64 years; percent of population aged 65 years or more for 16 industrialized countries during the period 1966-1994. Purpose: Find the reason to why income distribution change in industrialized countries.

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Time dimension

Time series

Analysis unit

Geographic unit

Universe

Industrialized countries

Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Not available

Access

Publisher

Swedish National Data Service

Publication year

2004

Terms of data access

Access to data through SND. Data are accessible by order.

Related publications

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