Econometrics and Income Inequality

• Main Author: Emmanuel Flachaire (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Martin Biewen (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Complex survey data; Robust inference; Modelling of top tails; Decomposition methods; Inequality measurement; Wage inequality; incomplete data
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This Special Issue is devoted to the econometric analysis of income inequality and income distributions. Given the recent surge of inequality research, this Special Issue seeks to combine both theoretical and applied contributions which advance the econometric analysis of income inequality and income distributions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, statistical inference for inequality measurement, inequality measurement with complex survey data, parametric or nonparametric modeling of income distributions, statistical decomposition methodology, methods to investigate the determinants of distributional change, causal inference in inequality measurement, and applications of such methods to substantive research questions in different fields of economics.