World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
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- Stephen Jenkins, 2015. "World income inequality databases: an assessment of WIID and SWIID," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 13(4), pages 629-671, December.
- Jenkins, Stephen P., 2015. "World income inequality databases: an assessment of WIID and SWIID," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 62173, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- P. Jenkins, Stephen, 2014. "World Income Inequality Databases: an assessment of WIID and SWIID," ISER Working Paper Series 2014-31, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
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Keywords
Gini; inequality; global inequality; imputation; WIID; SWIID;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
- C82 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data; Data Access
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAM-2014-12-19 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LTV-2014-12-19 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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