Power Law Tails in the Italian Personal Income Distribution

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dc.creatorClementi, F.
dc.creatorGallegati, M.
dc.date2004-08-03
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dc.descriptionWe investigate the shape of the Italian personal income distribution using microdata from the Survey on Household Income and Wealth, made publicly available by the Bank of Italy for the years 1977--2002. We find that the upper tail of the distribution is consistent with a Pareto-power law type distribution, while the rest follows a two-parameter lognormal distribution. The results of our analysis show a shift of the distribution and a change of the indexes specifying it over time. As regards the first issue, we test the hypothesis that the evolution of both gross domestic product and personal income is governed by similar mechanisms, pointing to the existence of correlation between these quantities. The fluctuations of the shape of income distribution are instead quantified by establishing some links with the business cycle phases experienced by the Italian economy over the years covered by our dataset.
dc.descriptionLatex2e v1.6; 14 pages with 10 figures; preprint submitted to Physica A
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408067
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408067
dc.identifierPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol: 350, Issue: 2-4, May 15, 2005, pp. 427-438
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physa.2004.11.038
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/217881
dc.subjectOther Condensed Matter
dc.subjectGeneral Finance
dc.titlePower Law Tails in the Italian Personal Income Distribution
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