Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of 'Secondary' Data -Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries

Anthony Barnes Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini ()

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Abstract: Secondary data-set have come to play an increasing role in empirical economic research. This paper examines the major new secondary data-set assembled by Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire and the World Bank. We concentrate on its coverage of the OECD countries. We have particularly in mind the user of income inequality statistics who does not wish to go back to the original data.

Keywords: DISTRIBUTION; INCOME; INFORMATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 C80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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