Trade and Inequality. Impact on Spanish Regional Income Distributions

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Data relates income inequality indicators and trade openness measures, at the regional level for the 17 Autonomous Communities (Spanish NUTS 2 regions) between 2007 and 2019. This dataset is supplemental material for "Trade and Inequality: Impact on Spanish Regional Income Distributions".

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Using micro-data from the Living Conditions Survey provided by the Spanish National Statistics Institute, we construct Gini indices, as well as other inequality indicators, at the regional level for the 17 Autonomous Communities (Spanish NUTS 2 regions) between 2007 and 2019. In particular, inequality indicators are calculated for the total income distribution, as well as for the distributions of employees, entrepreneurs and the self-employed, separately. In addition, based on data on foreign trade transactions, available from the statistics of the Spanish Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria), we compute the shares of imports and exports in GDP. Two alternative classifications for trade flows are used: the type of traded products and the income level of the country of origin/destination. Please refer to the README file for more details.

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