Research Papers on Inequality Process

Research Papers on the Inequality Process (IP)

Angle, John, Francois Nielsen, and Enrico Scalas. 2009. “The Kuznets Curve and the Inequality Process”. In Banasri Basu, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Satya R. Chakravarty, Kausik Gangopadhyay, editors, Econophysics and Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques. (Proceedings of the Econophys-Kolkata IV Conference, March 2009, Kolkata, India, jointly sponsored by the Indian Statistical Institute and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics.) [ http://www.isical.ac.in/cmp/econophys4.com/ ]. Milan: Springer. [on-line at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16058/ ].

_____. 2007. "The Macro Model of the Inequality Process and The Surging Relative Frequency of Large Wage Incomes". Pp. 171-196 in A. Chatterjee and B.K. Chakrabarti, (eds.), The Econophysics of Markets and Networks (Proceedings of the Econophys-Kolkata III Conference, March 2007 [ http://www.saha.ac.in/cmp/econophys3.cmp/ ] ). Milan : Springer [ISBN: 978-8847006645 ]. [on-line at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3430 ].

_____. 2007. "The Inequality Process is an evolutionary process". The Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics. Adrian Bejan and Gilbert Merkx, eds. (Proceedings of the Conference on the Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics, Duke University, April 2006). New York: Springer [ ISBN: 978-0387476803 ].

_____. 2006 (received 8/05; electronic publication: 12/05; hardcopy publication 7/06). "The Inequality Process as a wealth maximizing algorithm". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 367:388-414 (DOI information: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.11.017). A draft version of the paper can be downloaded from the Luxembourg Income Study website: [ http://www.lisproject.org/publications/liswps/427.pdf ].

_____. 2006. "The Inequality Process as an evolutionary process". Proceedings (late breaking papers) of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July, 2006. Late breaking paper (lbp) #137.

_____. 2004. "U.S. Wage Income Since 1961: The Perceived Inequality Trend". Presented to 2005 annual meetings of the Population Association of America and downloadable from the website of those meetings: [ http://paa2005.princeton.edu/download.aspx?SubmissionID=50379 ].

_____. 2003. "The dynamics of the distribution of wage and salary income in the nonmetropolitan U.S.". Estadistica.55: 59-93.

_____. 2003. "Imitating the salamander: a model of the right tail of the wage distribution truncated by topcoding". November, 2003 Conference of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, [ http://www.fcsm.gov/events/papers2003.html ].

_____. 2002. "The statistical signature of pervasive competition on wages and salaries". Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 26:217-270. [abstracted in Cambridge Science Abstracts and Sociological Abstracts].

_____. 2002. "Modeling the dynamics of the nonmetro distribution of wage and salary income as a function of its mean". Proceedings of the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings, (American Statistical Association, Business and Economic Statistics Section). [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA : American Statistical Association

_____. 2002. "Contingent forecasting of bulges in the left and right tails of the nonmetro wage and salary income distribution". Proceedings of the 2002 Federal Forecasters= Conference. Washington , DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (Awarded "Best Paper" prize by Organizing Committee of the 2003 Federal Forecasters' Conference, 9/18/03)

_____. 2001. "Modeling the right tail of the nonmetro distribution of wage and salary income". 2001 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section. [CD-ROM], Alexandria , VA : American Statistical Association.

_____. 1999. "Evidence of pervasive competition: the dynamics of income distributions and individual incomes". 1999 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section. Pp. 331-336. Alexandria, VA : American Statistical Association.

_____. 1999. "Contingent forecasting of the size of a vulnerable nonmetro population". Proceedings of the 1999 Federal Forecasters= Conference. Pp. 161-169. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (Awarded "Best Paper" prize by Organizing Committee of the 2000 Federal Forecasters' Conference, 9/14/00).

_____. 1998. "Contingent forecasting of the size of the small income population in a recession". 1998 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section. Pp. 138-143. Alexandria , VA: American Statistical Association.

_____. 1997. "A theory of income distribution". 1997 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section. Pp. 388-393. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

_____. 1996. "How the gamma law of income distribution appears invariant under aggregation". Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 21:325-358.

_____, 1993. "Deriving the size distribution of personal wealth from 'the rich get richer, the poor get poorer' ". Journal of Mathematical Sociology 18:27-46.

_____. 1993. "An apparent invariance of the size distribution of personal income conditioned on education." 1993 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section . Pp. 197-202. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

_____, 1992. "The Inequality Process and the distribution of income to blacks and whites". Journal of Mathematical Sociology 17:77-98. [Included in the Inventory of the John Hope Franklin Papers, 1889-1998 and undated, bulk 1970-1998, Rare Book, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries, [ http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/franklinjohnhope/inv/ ].

_____. 1990. "A stochastic interacting particle system model of the size distribution of wealth and income." 1990 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section. Pp. 279-284. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

_____, 1986. "The surplus theory of social stratification and the size distribution of Personal Wealth." Social Forces 65:293-326.

_____. 1986. "Coalitions in a stochastic process of wealth distribution." 1986 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section. Pp. 259-263. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

_____. 1983. "The surplus theory of social stratification and the size distribution of Personal Wealth." 1983 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section. Pp. 395-400. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.