What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

A comprehensive account of economic size distributions around the world and throughout
the years In the course of the past 100 years, economists and applied statisticians have …

Although most US income inequality research is based on public use March CPS data, a
new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially faster inequality growth …

To use the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) for the analysis of income
and other positively skewed distributions, knowledge of estimation methods and the ability to …

A stochastic model for the generation of observed income distributions is used to provide an
explanation for the Pareto law of incomes. Analysis of the model also yields a prediction of …

The distribution of wealth lies at the heart of the broad research field of economic inequality.
It is a topic that has recently gained considerable attention in view of the widespread …

Econophysics has already made a number of important empirical contributions to our
understanding of the social and economic world. These fall mainly into the areas of finance …

Empirical distributions of top incomes suffer from statistical problems affecting the
measurement of inequality and its trend. Researchers and practitioners have been …

The main objective of this paper is to show how Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address …

This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give
quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects …