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Imputed Rent and Income Inequality : A Decomposition

Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequal...

Estimating the Income Elasticities of Health Expenditures for Income Quintiles and Inequality of Health Expenditures Distribution

Background: Determining the income elasticities of the household health expenditures, especially for income deciles, leads to adoption of appropriate policies to control and manage health expenditures among income deciles. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to estimate the income elasticities of urban household health expenditures by income quintiles, and also calculate inequality in...

Ownership, Organization, and Income Inequality: Market Transition in Rural Vietnam

economies has retreated from an initial preoccupation with claims about the inherent impact of market transition. The claim that the shift from plan to market inherently favors entrepreneurs and direct producers at the expense of political officials—and human capital at the expense of political capital—has attracted a great deal of attention (Nee 1989, 1991). The ensuing debate was largely abou...

resource curse, rent-seeking, and income inequality in oil rich countries

weak economic performance that has been observed in countries with rich natural resources is called resource curse. there have been many studies on resource curse, especially the adverse effects of this phenomenon on economic growth. income inequality or unfair distribution of income is one of the main characteristics of resource rich countries. but, there has not been much research on the effe...