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Income distribution in the European Union versus in the United States

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  • Jagielski, Maciej
  • Duczmal, Rafał
  • Kutner, Ryszard

Abstract

We prove that the refined approach–our extension of the Yakovenko et al. formalism–is universal in the sense that it describes well both household incomes in the European Union and individual incomes in the United States for all income social classes. This formalism, supplemented in this work by the entropy analysis, allowed the study of the impact of the recent world-wide financial crisis on the annual incomes of different income social classes. Hence, we find the most painful impact of the crisis on incomes of all income social classes. Furthermore, we indicate the existence of a possible market crisis precursor.

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  • Jagielski, Maciej & Duczmal, Rafał & Kutner, Ryszard, 2015. "Income distribution in the European Union versus in the United States," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 433(C), pages 36-41.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:433:y:2015:i:c:p:36-41
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.03.071
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    1. Gęstwicki Filip Edmund & Wędrowska Ewa, 2016. "Assessment of the Degree of the Divergence and Inequality of Household Income Distribution in Poland in the Years 2005–2013," Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, Sciendo, vol. 16(1), pages 50-62, December.
    2. Xu, Yan & Wang, Yougui & Tao, Xiaobo & Ližbetinová, Lenka, 2017. "Evidence of Chinese income dynamics and its effects on income scaling law," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 487(C), pages 143-152.

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