Re-estimating national wealth inequality with incorporating the rich lists in China

Using the two annual rich lists of Forbes and Hurun, this study estimated the parameters of Pareto distribution to describe the features of the top tail of the wealth distribution. The wealth inequality for the whole population was re-estimated by the combination of estimated Pareto distribution and...

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Main Authors: Chuliang Luo, Guoqiang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2021-12-01
Series:China Economic Quarterly International
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666933121000472