TOP INCOME ADJUSTMENTS AND INEQUALITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EU‐SILC^†

This paper provides a novel assessment of how the World Inequality Database (WID) top income adjustment applied by Blanchet, Chancel, and Gethin (2021) to European Union Statistics on Income Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data for 26 countries over 2003–2017 Distributional National Accounts purposes affects inequality in equivalized gross disposable household income. On average, Gini is increased around 2.4 points both income, with notable differences across but limited impact trends. EU-SILC that rely administrative register see relatively small effects inequality. Comparing two other recent studies, impacts measured depend less method more whether external sources are used.