Study of the Asymmetric Relation Between Income Inequality and Consumption Expenditure Inequality in Iran, 1979-2006

اقتصاد پولی مالی

Article 9, Volume 17, Issue 32, January 2011   

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pm.v17i32.27274

Authors

Mohammad Hassan Fotros^* ; Reza Maaboudi

Abstract

This paper investigates asymmetric behaviors of income inequality and consumption expenditures inequalities, the relationships between them and sketches their trends in the Iranian Households’ survey for the period of 1979 to 2006.
For this purpose, and to analyze the relationships between variables panel data methodology was employed.
Results indicate that all the fluctuations of income inequality do not transmit into the composition of consumption expenditure. Therefore, there is an asymmetric relationship between these variables.

Keywords

Household budget; Consumption expenditure inequality; Income inequality; Panel Data Unit Root Tests