Hlasny, Vladimir; Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
-response significantly increases the estimate of inequality by just over 1 percentage point, that the Egyptian distribution of top incomes … follows rather closely the Pareto distribution, and that the inverted Pareto coefficient is located around median values when … compared with 418 household surveys worldwide. Hence, income inequality in Egypt is confirmed to be low while the distribution …