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

SND-ID: SND 0802

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work

Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies

Description

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.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Department of Social Work

Funding

  • Funding agency: Swedish Council for Social Research
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Industrialized countries

Time Method

Time period(s) investigated

1966 – 1994

Geographic coverage
Publications

Gustafsson, B. & Johansson, M. (1999) In search of Smoking Guns: What Makes Income Inequality Vary over Time in Different Countries?, American Sociological Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Aug., 1999), 585-605.

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

Associated documentation

Version 1.0

Citation

Björn Gustafsson, Mats Johansson. University of Gothenburg (2012). In search of smoking guns: What makes income inequality vary over time in different countries? Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/001112

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work

Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies

Variables

24

Number of individuals/objects

89

Published: 2004-01-01
Last updated: 2019-02-06