Measuring Income Inequality: A New Data-Base

Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire

Working Papers from Harvard - Institute for International Development

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income, to discuss the procedures followed in putting it together, and to highlight some issues that might affect international comparability of such data.

Keywords: INCOME; DISTRIBUTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 1996
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