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The UTIP Global Inequality Datasets: 1963-2008

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  • James K. Galbraith
  • Beatrice Halbach
  • Aleksandra Malinowska
  • Amin Shams
  • Wenjie Zhang

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This paper summarizes a comprehensive revision and update of UTIP's work on the inequality of pay and incomes around the world, from 1963 to 2008. The new UTIP-UNIDO (University of Texas Inequality Project-United Nations Industrial Development Organization) dataset of industrial pay inequality has 4,054 country-year observations for 167 countries, while the revised EHII (Estimated Household Income Inequality) dataset of estimated gross household income inequality has 3,872 observations for 149 countries.

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  • James K. Galbraith & Beatrice Halbach & Aleksandra Malinowska & Amin Shams & Wenjie Zhang, 2015. "The UTIP Global Inequality Datasets: 1963-2008," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2015-019, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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