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I show that U.S. incomes follow a one-parameter family of probability distributions over more than fifty years of data. I compare statistical models of income, and I highlight the inverse-gamma distribution as a parsimonious model that…

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Using tax and census data, we demonstrate that the distribution of individual income in the USA is exponential. Our calculated Lorenz curve without fitting parameters and Gini coefficient 1/2 agree well with the data. From the individual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-25 Adrian Dragulescu , Victor M. Yakovenko

The results of R^2 dynamical random surface model (2-dimensional quantum gravity with a $R^2$ term) are applied to explain the personal income distribution. A scale invariance exists if there is not the $R^2$ term in the action. The R^2…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Atushi Ishikawa , Tadao Suzuki , Masashi Tomoyose

We develop a Bayesian state-space model for analyzing the dynamic evolution of income distributions using grouped income data. The model combines the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) with latent time-varying parameters…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-19 Kazuhiko Kakamu

We investigate the effect of tax evasion on the income distribution and the inequality index of a society through a kinetic model described by a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The model allows to compute the global…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-08-25 Maria Letizia Bertotti , Giovanni Modanese

This study considers multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) through the information gain of the Pareto-frontier. To calculate the information gain, a predictive distribution conditioned on the Pareto-frontier plays a key role, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Masanori Ishikura , Masayuki Karasuyama

Mounting evidences are being gathered suggesting that income and wealth distribution in various countries or societies follow a robust pattern, close to the Gibbs distribution of energy in an ideal gas in equilibrium, but also deviating…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Arnab Chatterjee , Sitabhra Sinha , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

Pareto's law states that the distribution of personal income obeys a power-law in the high-income range, and has been supported by international observations. Researchers have proposed models over a century since its discovery. However, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Yoshi Fujiwara , Wataru Souma , Hideaki Aoyama , Taisei Kaizoji , Masanao Aoki

In this paper, we attempt to derive the expression of ensemble average internal energy in long-range interaction complex system. Further, the Shannon entropy hypothesis is used to derive the probability distribution function of energy. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-04 Yanxiu Liu , Shenglei Zhang , Liu He , Cheng Xu , Zhifu Huang

Each individual in society experiences an evolution of their income during their lifetime. Macroscopically, this dynamics creates a statistical relationship between age and income for each society. In this study, we investigate income…

General Economics · Economics 2022-02-01 Fatih Ozhamaratli , Oleg Kitov , Paolo Barucca

Statistical models of economic distributions lead to Boltzmann distributions rather than a Pareto power law. This result is supported by two facts: 1. the distributions of income, car sales, marriages or jobs are a matter of chances and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 J. Mimkes , Th. Fruend , G. Willis

Personal income distributions in Japan are analyzed empirically and a simple stochastic model of the income process is proposed. Based on empirical facts, we propose a minimal two-factor model. Our model of personal income consists of an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Wataru Souma , Makoto Nirei

Probability distributions of money, income, and energy consumption per capita are studied for ensembles of economic agents. The principle of entropy maximization for partitioning of a limited resource gives exponential distributions for the…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-09-02 Anand Banerjee , Victor M. Yakovenko

The distribution of wealth among the members of a society is herein assumed to result from two fundamental mechanisms, trade and investment. An empirical distribution of wealth shows an abrupt change between the low-medium range, that may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Nicola Scafetta , Sergio Picozzi , Bruce J. West

The double Pareto distribution is a heavy-tailed distribution with a power-law tail, that is generated via geometric Brownian motion with an exponentially distributed observation time. In this study, we examine a modified model wherein the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-30 Ken Yamamoto , Takashi Bando , Hirokazu Yanagawa , Yoshihiro Yamazaki

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increasing interest in Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposals as it exposed the inadequacy of traditional welfare systems to provide basic financial security to a large share of the…

General Economics · Economics 2024-04-12 Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira , Jose Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira

We analyze the income distribution of employees for 9 consecutive years (2001-2009) using a complete social security database for an economically important district of Romania. The database contains detailed information on more than half…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Derzsy , Z. Neda , M. A. Santos

The distribution of money is analysed in connection with the Boltzmann distribution of energy in the degenerate states of molecules. Plots of the population density of income distribution for various countries are well reproduced by a Gamma…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan C. Ferrero

This paper explores the relationship between the inner economical structure of communities and their population distribution through a rank-rank analysis of official data, along statistical physics ideas within two techniques. The data is…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2015-08-17 Roy Cerqueti , Marcel Ausloos

American income inequality, generally estimated with tax data, in the 20th century is widely recognized to have followed a U-curve, though debates persist over the extent of this curve, specifically regarding how high the peaks are and how…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-19 Vincent Geloso , Alexis Akira Toda