david dorkin wrote: >I should probably point out why I was looking for more info today on >inequality. In Pagina1 12, the Argentinian left daily, a report came out >from an establishment consulting firm (FIEL)that the income share of the >top 10% is 49.3% and not 37 as stated by Indec, the official agency in >Argentina. Any comments on this? Of what, income after taxes & transfers? In U.S. pretax distribution in 1997, the top 20% had 49.4% of income, and the top 5%, 21.7%. They don't publish decile info, but around 38-40% isn't an ureasonable guess. Sounds like Argentina is very concentrated, since the U.S. is always the most unequal in the LIS rankings except for Russia. Doug
