https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-60670-1
Regular Article
Household income distribution in the USA
Department of Physics, University of Central
Florida, Orlando,
FL
32816,
USA
a e-mail: costas@physics.ucf.edu
Received:
12
August
2015
Received in final form:
28
December
2015
Published online:
28
March
2016
In this article we present an alternative model for the distribution of household incomes in the United States. We provide arguments from two differing perspectives which both yield the proposed income distribution curve, and then fit this curve to empirical data on household income distribution obtained from the United States Census Bureau.
Key words: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2016