Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2011
We suggest to use 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 Latvian pool of personal cars …. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The …