IS INCOME INEQUALITY IN BULGARIA UNDERESTIMATED IN SURVEY DATA?

The Interaction between Income Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Iranian Provinces (SURE Approach in Panel Data)

Abstract: The concept of inclusive growth is one of the important issues in the urban economics literature and has been considered in empirical studies recently. For this purpose, the main aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between income inequality and GDP growth in Iranian provinces over the period of 2000-2012. To conduct this study, the econometric model has been est...

Is income inequality decreasing in Brazil?

Survey mode effects on income inequality measurement

This appendix includes material supplementing the manuscript “Survey mode effects on income inequality measurement.” It includes background information in Section 1, an extended description of the methods used in Section 2 as well as robustness checks and additional results in Section 3. JEL Classification: C14, C21, C81, C83, D31

Survey mode effects on income inequality measurement

We study the effect of interview modes on estimates of economic inequality which are based on survey data. We exploit variation in interview modes in the Austrian EU-SILC panel, where between 2007 and 2008 the interview mode was switched from personal interviews to telephone interviews for some but not all participants. We combine methods from the program evaluation literature with methods from...

The Effect of Urbanization on Income Inequality in Iran

Abstract. The dramatic growth of urbanization with the expansion of cities in terms of size and population has led to the creation of a variety of administrative structures to provide different types of administrative services and combinations. And bureaucratic and social mismatches cause corruption and unequal distribution of income and class fault. The main purpose of this study is to invest...