Top incomes are often related to Pareto distribution. To date, economists have mostly used Type I distribution model the upper tail of income and wealth It is a parametric distribution, with interesting properties, that can be easily linked economic theory. In this paper, we first show modeling top lead biased estimation inequality, even millions observations. Then, Generalized and, more, Exten...

An expression for the La er curve for high incomes is derived, assuming a constant Pareto parameter and elasticity of taxable income. The peak of this La er curve is given by the well-known Saez (2001) expression. Microsimulations using Swedish population data show that the simulated curve matches the theoretically derived La er curve well, suggesting that the analytical expression is not too m...

Precis: In this paper we present some quantitative indices for measuring and comparing levels of inequality in discrete spatial distributions. The indices presented are based on the Kullback Informa­ tion Measure which we consider to be the most general. In the final section of the paper the indices are applied to measure inequality in per capita income and certain categories of employment dist...