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A polynomial distribution applied to income and wealth distribution

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  • Elvis Oltean
  • Fedor Kusmartsev

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Income and wealth distribution affect stability of a society to a large extent and high inequality affects it negatively. Moreover, in the case of developed countries, recently has been proven that inequality is closely related to all negative phenomena affecting society. So far, Econophysics papers tried to analyse income and wealth distribution by employing distributions such as Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein, Maxwell-Boltzmann, lognormal (Gibrat), and exponential. Generally, distributions describe mostly income and less wealth distribution for low and middle income segment of population, which accounts about 90% of the population. Our approach is based on a totally new distribution, not used so far in the literature regarding income and wealth distribution. Using cumulative distribution method, we find that polynomial functions, regardless of their degree (first, second, or higher), can describe with very high accuracy both income and wealth distribution. Moreover, we find that polynomial functions describe income and wealth distribution for entire population including upper income segment for which traditionally Pareto distribution is used.

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  • Elvis Oltean & Fedor Kusmartsev, 2014. "A polynomial distribution applied to income and wealth distribution," Papers 1410.4866, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2016.
  • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:1410.4866
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