MEASURING MACRO-LEVEL INEQUALITY: THE ROLE OF THE TOP 1%

Ilona Cserháti and Tibor Keresztély

Economy & Business Journal, 2016, vol. 10, issue 1, 123-131

Abstract: Income inequality has been rising in the last decades. It is generally measured on micro-level by income surveys, but the richest 1% is partly missing from the survey samples. We used the Hungarian tax database for calculating ‘macro-level’ income distribution and the share of the top 1% for 2010-2014. We aligned the original EU-SILC questionnaire database, and compared the original and the updated inequality measures. We analysed the effects of the integration, with special regard to the role of the top 1%.

Keywords: income inequality; microsimulation; taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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