{
  "id": "cond-mat/0203399",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2002-03-20T10:26:06.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-03-20T10:26:06.000Z",
  "title": "A New Approach to Personal Income Distribution",
  "authors": [
    "Atushi Ishikawa",
    "Tadao Suzuki",
    "Masashi Tomoyose"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages, 5 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "hep-th",
    "q-fin.GN"
  ],
  "abstract": "The results of R^2 dynamical random surface model (2-dimensional quantum gravity with a $R^2$ term) are applied to explain the personal income distribution. A scale invariance exists if there is not the $R^2$ term in the action. The R^2 term provides a typical scale and breaks the scale invariance explicitly in the low and middle income range. A new distribution, Weibull distribution, is deduced from the action analytically in the low income range, and a consistent fitting is obtained in the whole income range. Also, we show that the lognormal distribution in the middle income range can be understood in this framework.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2002-03-20T10:26:06.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "personal income distribution",
      "middle income range",
      "scale invariance",
      "low income range",
      "dynamical random surface model"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 584424,
      "adsabs": "2002cond.mat..3399I"
    }
  }
}