Modelling Income Distribution in Spain: A Robust Parametric Approach

This paper presents a robust estimation of two income distribution models using Spanish data for the period 1990-91 under three different concepts of income. The effect on the estimates of the Theil index due to the choice of the definition of income and of the estimation method is also analysed.

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Year of publication:	1996-06
Authors:	Alaiz, Mercedes Prieto ; Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia
Institutions:	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
Subject:	Income distribution \| inequality \| M-estimators \| robust statistics \| parametric estimation

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Series:	STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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