Top Incomes and the Measurement of Inequality in Egypt

• Tác giả: Vladimir Hlasny
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 339.22 Distribution of aggregate personal income and wealth
• Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2019
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 256315
• Chủ đề: 1. GINI COEFFICIENT; 2. INEQUALITY; 3. PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; 4. PARETO DISTRIBUTION; 5. SURVEY NONRESPONSE

Tóm tắt

 This study exploits unprecedented access to income data and a combination of newly developed statistical methods to evaluate income inequality in Egypt and test for potential top incomes biases. Income inequality in Egypt is found to be low by regional and world standards
  top incomes are found to follow the Pareto distribution and do not show anomalies compared to surveys worldwide. Correcting for top incomes biases increases the Gini coefficient significantly. The magnitude of the upward correction varies between 1.1 and 4.1 percentage points depending on the choice of correction method and welfare measure.