Clementi, Fabio; Gallegati, Mauro - EconWPA - 2005
We investigate the shape of the Italian personal income distribution using microdata from the Survey on Household … Income and Wealth, made publicly available by the Bank of Italy for the years 1977-2002. We find that the upper tail of the … regards the first issue, we test the hypothesis that the evolution of both gross domestic product and personal income is …