The distribution of personal income: Revisited
个人收入分布:再考察
Abstract In a recent paper, Majumder and Chakravarty (1990) propose a four‐parameter model which they find provides a better fit to some income data than the lognormal, gamma, Singh‐Maddala, Dagum, and generalized beta of the second kind (GB2) distributions. This note (1) demonstrates that the model proposed by Majumder and Chakravarty is a reparameterization of the GB2 and (2) reconciles the corresponding contradictory empirical findings reported by Majumder and Chakravarty.