A Survey of Income Inequalities in Urban and Rural Areas using Beta Lorenz Curve technique

Subject Areas : Applied Economics

کامبیز هژبر کیانی ¹ (ندارد)
علیرضا مرادی ² (مسئول مکاتبات)

Received: 2009-09-24 Accepted : 2010-04-19 Published : 2010-06-22

Keywords: Income Distribution, Gini Coefficient, Beta Lorenze Curve, Share of Docile Income, Bootstrap,

Abstract :

The Study of Income Distribution and its Inequality still poses some theoretical and practical challenges to economists. Research Institutes, International publishing organizations and scientific research Papers produced so far, altogether do acknowledge the very importance of conducting a genuine study on this topic with a view to casting light on untapped dimension of income distribution and related issues. The political and economic repercussion of income distribution and inequality has given this topic an overwhelming importance in the development of new frontiers in economics in general and political economics in particular. In this study attempts were made to use household budget data published by Iran Statistical Center along with Beta Lorenz curve technique introduced by Teekens (1987). The result has been the extraction of Beta Lorenz curve and Gini Coefficient both for rural and urban areas specified in this paper, over the period of 1378-86[1](Iranian calendar) by Iranian colander system). To focus on income Inequality for certain period of time, the entire period was divided into two sub-period viz. (1376-80) and (1381-86). To compare income inequality, using Bootstrap technique, a pseudo statistical population was constructed. The final results reveal that income distribution measure has improved in the second period (1381-86), both in urban and rural areas.