Double power laws in income and wealth distributions
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Close examination of wealth distributions reveal the existence of two distinct power law regimes. The Pareto exponents of the super-rich, identified, for example in rich lists such as provided by Forbes, are smaller than the Pareto exponents obtained for top earners in income data sets. Our extension of the Slanina model of wealth is able to reproduce these double power law features. c © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 89.65.Gh
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تاریخ انتشار 2016