Standardizing the World Income Inequality Database

By F. Solt. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Financialisation and Income Inequality in OECD Nations:1995-2007 (2012, unknown): “As Solt (2009) notes, although in the developing world where effective policies to redistribute income are rare, gross and net income inequality trends tend to be very closely related, this is not the case in advanced countries.”
World income inequality databases: an assessment of WIID and SWIID (2015, unknown): “For feedback on a first draft, I am grateful to Nina Badgaiyan, Jukka Pirttilä, and Finn Tarp (WIID) and Frederick Solt (SWIID).”
Financial Development and Income Inequality at Different Levels of Institutional Quality (2014, methodology): “1 The income inequality, or Gini, coefficient indicator is obtained from the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) created by Solt (2009), who uses various techniques to estimate the ratios between different types of Gini coefficients—relying heavily on information about the ratio fo”
Finance and Income Inequality: A Review and New Evidence (2017, unknown): “As dependent variable we use five‐year averages of Gini coefficients based on households’ gross income from Solt’s (2009) Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID).”
Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion – A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries (2011, unknown): “According to 2008 Gini index estimates based on Solt (2009), Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the highest levels of income inequality, and Sub-Saharan Africa is not far behind.”
Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match (2010, unknown): “Measure of income inequality The Gini coefficients for testing Proposition 4 are obtained from the most recent version of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database developed by Solt (2009), as described above.”
Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence (2018, methodology): “…countries and a set of specific observations handpicked for deletion by Solt (2009) 3667 7.5 7.2 − 14.2 30.3 Full Full sample of all available data in Solt (2009) 4396 6.9 6.9 − 14.2 30.4 Restricted All available data in Solt (2009) as long as the country has at least three observations based on…”
Globalization, Inequality, and Redistribution: Theory and Evidence (2017, unknown): “Bergh and Nilsson (2010) examined the impact of the KOF indexes on income inequality in 79 countries over the period 1970-2005 using the "net" income inequality measure from the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) dataset of Solt (2009).”