Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215130 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12734
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends for real equivalized disposable incomes over the years 1994-2015. We find that the top-corrected Gini coefficient grew by 14-26% more compared to the unadjusted survey-based estimates. This implies that over the last three decades Poland has become one of the most unequal European countries among those for which top-corrected inequality estimates exist. The highest-income earners benefited the most during the post-socialist transformation: the annual rate of income growth for the top 5% of the population exceeded 3.5%, while the median income grew by about 2.5%.
Subjects: 
income inequality
Gini index
top income shares
tax record
survey data
Pareto distribution
Poland
JEL: 
D31
D63
C46
P36
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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