Personal income tax records are used to analyse income distributions and income differentials by sex for the period 1969 to 1981 in four Canadian metropolitan areas: Chicoutimi-Jonquière, London, Saskatoon and Sudbury. These areas were selected to permit an analysis for geographic regions that...

In a series of papers in the 1970s, Camilo Dagum proposed several variants of a new model for the size distribution of personal income. This Chapter traces the genesis of the Dagum distributions in applied economics and points out parallel developments in several branches of the applied...