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WIID companion (May 2021): integrated and standardized seriesThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID). A previous note described the selection of income distribution series...
Inequality WIID DatabaseTechnical Note
WIID Companion (May 2021): data selectionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)...
Data Inequality WIIDResearch Brief
Book Chapter
South Africa: The top-end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution and the persistence of very high inequalityFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Earnings Personal income tax Survey dataBook Chapter
Brazil: What are the main drivers of income distribution changes in the new millennium?From the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Income inequality Fiscal redistribution Top incomesBook Chapter
Comparing global inequality of income and wealthFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
World Income inequality InequalityWorking Paper
Trends in global inequality using a new integrated datasetThis paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in the World ...
Global inequality Income distribution WIIDTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): gobal income distributionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database...
Income distribution Inequality WIIDTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): integrated and standardized seriesThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database...
Inequality WIID DatabaseTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): data selectionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)...
Data Inequality WIIDBlog
Detecting global income inequality trends: And why it matters
More accurate estimates of inequality trends allow us to measure progress towards achieving reductions in inequality within and between countries...
Income inequality Global inequalityBlog
From the editor's desk: Focus on data
This month, a partnership between UNU-WIDER and the Groningen Growth and Development Center (GGDC) brings a new database on economic transformation public...
Data Economic Transformation Database Income inequalityWorking Paper
Premature deindustrialization and income inequality in middle-income countriesThis paper examines the income inequality implications of a ‘premature deindustrialization’ trend in middle-income countries...
Deindustrialization Income inequality Middle-income countriesWorking Paper
What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality?: A systematic reviewOver the past two decades, research on the impacts of a diverse range of public policies and income inequality has seen rapid growth...
Income inequality Systematic review Tax policyResearch Brief
Wage inequality in post-apartheid South AfricaMuch work has been done on inequality in South Africa, but to date the literature that assesses the dynamic response of income or wealth distribution to economic policy actions is almost non-existent...
Income inequality Distributions HeterogeneityJournal Article
Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Top incomes Pareto distribution Income inequality