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Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC
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Abstract This paper provides a novel assessment of how the World Inequality Database (WID) top income adjustment applied by Blanchet, Chancel, and Gethin (2021) to European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data for 26 countries over 2003-2017 for Distributional National Accounts pur... view more
This paper provides a novel assessment of how the World Inequality Database (WID) top income adjustment applied by Blanchet, Chancel, and Gethin (2021) to European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data for 26 countries over 2003-2017 for Distributional National Accounts purposes affects inequality in equivalized gross and disposable household income. On average, the Gini is increased by around 2.4 points for both gross and disposable income, with notable differences across countries but limited impact on trends. EU-SILC countries that rely on administrative register data see relatively small effects on inequality. Comparing with two other recent studies, differences in impacts on measured inequality depend less on the adjustment method and more on whether external data sources are used.... view less
Keywords
inequality; weighting; income situation; income distribution; household income; difference in income
Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Free Keywords
reweighting; survey representativeness; top incomes; EU-SILC 2003-2017
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 725-754
Journal
Review of Income and Wealth, 69 (2023) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12591
ISSN
1475-4991
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0