Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy
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2011-09Type
- 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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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-006612615Publication status
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KOF Working PapersVolume
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichSubject
Cars; LATVIA (NORTH-EASTERN EUROPE). REPUBLIC OF LETTLAND; Gini index; SOZIALE UNGLEICHHEIT (ETHIK); SOCIAL INEQUALITY (ETHICS); WELFARE ECONOMICS; Economic inequality; Latvia; WOHLFAHRTSÖKONOMIK; Social signaling; LETTLAND (NORDOST-EUROPA). REPUBLIK LETTLANDOrganisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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