Maclachlan, Fiona Cameron; Reith, John E. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 17 (2008) 1, pp. 81-86
A new two-parameter descriptive model for the size distribution of incomes is presented. The Beaman distribution, originally found to describe the relationship between prices and sales volumes of textiles and related products, is shown to fit closely US Census data on individual incomes over the...