Evidence for power-law tail of the wealth distribution in India

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 359, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 555-562

  Sinha, Sitabhra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Econophysics; Income distribution; Pareto Law; Wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ECONOPHYSICS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PARETO LAW; WEALTH DISTRIBUTION;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 27344460750     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.02.092     Document Type: Article

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