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

SND-ID: SND 0802

Overview
Data and documentation

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

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Geographic unit

Population

Industrialized countries

Time Method

Time series

Time period(s) investigated

1966 – 1994

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

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

Lowest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords

Research area

Economic conditions and indicators (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Economics (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

developing countries, public expenditure, unemployment, trade union membership, economic conditions, gross domestic product, social security, inflation, age distribution, exports and imports, working women

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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