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How the gamma law of income distribution appears invariant under aggregationFootnote*

Pages 325-358 | Published online: 26 Aug 2010

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  • Some preliminary findings from the project on which this paper is based were presented to the 1993 annual meetings of the American Statistical Association in a paper entitled “An Apparent Invariance of the Size Distribution of Personal Income Conditioned on Education,” which appears in the Proceedings of those meetings. Thanks to Prof. Francois Nielsen for comments.

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