Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/206424 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ICAE Working Paper Series No. 102
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE), Linz
Abstract: 
Taking survey data on household wealth as our major example, this short paper discusses some of the issues applied researchers are facing when fitting (type I) Pareto distributions to complex survey data. The major contribution of this paper is twofold: First, we provide a novel take on key aspects of Pareto tail fitting and a new and easy way of implementing the latter. Second, we summarise key results on goodness of fit tests in the context of complex survey data. Taken together we think the paper provides a concise and useful presentation of the fundamentals of Pareto tail fitting with complex survey data.
Subjects: 
Pareto distribution
complex survey data
wealth distribution
JEL: 
D31
C46
C83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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