Alireza Shakibaei; Zahra Kamal-e-Dini; Fatemeh Taleghani; Mohammadreza Ahmadi-Nejad
Volume 15, Issue 57 , July 2015, , Pages 109-140
Abstract
Regional inequalities have always been one of the concerns of the government planners and they have attempted to recognize these inequalities and devise particular policies to curb them. The motivation to work on this domain has led to the development of different indices and techniques to measure regional ...
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Regional inequalities have always been one of the concerns of the government planners and they have attempted to recognize these inequalities and devise particular policies to curb them. The motivation to work on this domain has led to the development of different indices and techniques to measure regional inequalities. β-convergence examination is one of the aforementioned methods of measuring income distribution. An important point is that, urbanization trend cannot be examined apart from economic variables either in Iran or in other countries of the world and economic variables such as households’ income are expected to be affected by the degree of urbanization. Consistent with this reasoning, we can say that urbanization is one of the effective factors on income distribution; therefore, the present paper is focused on the examination of urbanization effects upon convergence rate of income distribution between urban and rural areas in 25 selected provinces of Iran during the time period of 2001-2011 using general spatial econometric model and ordinary least squares (OSL) method. The findings indicated the existence of income distribution convergence among the examined provinces during the above-mentioned period. Moreover, during this period and following the increasing degree of urbanization, the conditional convergence rate for decreasing the gap between current income of urban and rural and its steady state equilibrium is increased as compared with the absolute convergence rate.
Abbas Assari Arani; Lotfali Agheli; Saeid Shafiei; Meysam Rasoli Mir
Volume 11, Issue 40 , April 2011, , Pages 31-48
Abstract
Abstract Fair distribution of income has been considered as the most important economic issues in different countries. In recent years, the quality of income distribution and the impact of macroeconomic policies on that has been more considered, ...
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Abstract Fair distribution of income has been considered as the most important economic issues in different countries. In recent years, the quality of income distribution and the impact of macroeconomic policies on that has been more considered, especially after the issue of poverty reduction projects in the world. In today's world, the biggest factor causing poverty is not the lack of income, but it is the unfair distribution. Currently, majority of economists, considered the income distribution as one of the goals of government economic programs and the impact of fiscal policy on that as very important. This paper seeking for examination of the effect of fiscal policies on income distribution in IRAN. For this purpose we use a quantile regression model. In summary, the results show that the government's fiscal policies that impact on the Gini coefficient is not constant, but between different quantiles is different. While these policies in low quantiles do not have significant effects on income distribution, but their effects on the high quantile income distribution is quite significant.
