Is the Distribution of Income Compatible with a Stable Distribution?
John Dagsvik and
Bjørn H. Vatne ()
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Bjørn H. Vatne: Statistics Norway, https://www.ssb.no/en/forskning/ansatte
Discussion Papers from Statistics Norway, Research Department
Abstract:
Mandelbrot (1961) proposed to apply the class of Pareto-Levy distributions - which belong to the Stable distributions - as a framework for modelling income distributions. He also presented theoretic arguments in favor of the Pareto-Levy distributions. In this paper we provide additional theoretical justification for this class of distributions. We also use micro data on individual market income to estimate the parameters of a Pareto-Levy distribution. Several estimation methods have been applied. The estimated Pareto-Levy distribution appears to fit the data well.
Keywords: Stable distributions; Pareto-Levy distributions; Income distributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-01
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