Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence forLatvia
提出用个人汽车登记数据作为影子经济占比大的国家经济不平等的替代指标，以拉脱维亚为例发现其经济不平等程度远高于官方估计。
We suggest using 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 L atvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in L atvia is much larger than officially assumed. According to E urostat, the officially published estimate of the G ini coefficient for L atvia is 0.374 for 2009, which is much higher than the G ini coefficient value reported for all the 27 EU member countries (0.304), but significantly lower than 0.48 according to our results.