Taiwan's economic inequality and distribution: Empirical analysis using Family Income and Expenditure Surveys

Abstract

Two primary objectives of this paper are to trace the temporal evolution of Taiwan's economic inequality and distribution for the period of 1976-2011 based on Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients of income, expenditure and pseudo-saving obtained from Taiwan's Family Income and Expenditure Surveys, and to study drivers of economic inequality and distribution over the period of 1981-2011 using econometric analysis suitable for aggregate and disaggregate quintile-group measures based on shares and levels.