Housing and Income Inequality in Europe: Distributional Effects of Non?Cash Income From Imputed Rents

Imputed Rent and Income Inequality : A Decomposition

Distributional Effects of Imputed Rents in Five European Countries

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...

Income Inequality and Housing Affordability in Selected Metropolises of Iran: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Housing is one of the most important and most expensive assets of the human life. It is an expensive commodity that requires long-term planning to purchase it, so housing affordability in the household budget portfolio is one of the most important issues. In this paper, based on Zhang (2015) model and Matlack and Vigdor (2008) study and using a cross-sectional household income - expenditure mic...

Correlation of Income Inequality and Entrepreneurial Activity

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...