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2.08. The coefficient for all incomes,including persons
with no taxable wealth is not very different which is
rather surprising.
While the Dutch data are not worse than could be expected
the Swedish data are not so good. The population of wealth
holders is here (on account of the tax laws) split into
four groups: Couples where both have wealth,couples where
only one has wealth, single men and single women. The
reduction of the sample impairs the regularity of the data
and I have therefore aggregated the four into two
groups,married couples and single persons. The calculated
Pareto coefficients for income of wealth owners are much
higher than the actual ones.These calculated coefficient
correspond more nearly to those of all income receivers
including the wealthless ones. We get,however, also a
reasonably good correspondence with the actual income data
for wealth owners if we exclude the open size class from
the calculation. This might perhaps be motivated by the
argument that the open size class does not enter the
calculation of K either. The motivation is not entirely
convincing and the results are somewhat inconclusive.
Since the conditional income distributions in the various
wealth classes have been referred to several times I give