Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia
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2012Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The latest officially available estimate of the Gini coefficient is 0.36 for 2005, which is much lower than 0.55 for 2009 reported in our paper. Show more
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichEvent
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Economic inequality; Cars; Social signaling; Gini index; LatviaOrganisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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