Aoyama, Hideaki; Nagahara, Yuichi; Okazaki, Mitsuhiro P.; … - arXiv.org - 2000
We analyze the distribution of income and income tax of individuals in Japan for the fiscal year 1998. From the rank-size plots we find that the accumulated probability distribution of both data obey a power law with a Pareto exponent very close to -2. We also present an analysis of the...