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Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view

Malaysian Household Income Survey data provided by the Malaysian Department of Statistics is used to provide evidence that the upper tails of the household income distribution follows a fractal based distribution known as power-law. Inequality measures are then applied to ascertain the levels of ine...

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Main Authors:	Fatimah Abdul Razak, Faridatulazna Ahmad Shahabuddin
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/1/29%20Fatimah%20Abdul%20Razak.pdf

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spelling	ukm-124112018-12-07T23:44:55Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/ Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view Fatimah Abdul Razak, Faridatulazna Ahmad Shahabuddin, Malaysian Household Income Survey data provided by the Malaysian Department of Statistics is used to provide evidence that the upper tails of the household income distribution follows a fractal based distribution known as power-law. Inequality measures are then applied to ascertain the levels of inequality based on this distribution. In addition to that, we analyzed the data in terms of different classes of occupation, obtained power-law exponents for each class and then highlighted the inequality between these classes. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/1/29%20Fatimah%20Abdul%20Razak.pdf Fatimah Abdul Razak, and Faridatulazna Ahmad Shahabuddin, (2018) Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view. Sains Malaysiana, 47 (9). pp. 2187-2194. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/malay_journals/jilid47bil9_2018/KandunganJilid47Bil9_2018.htm
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description	Malaysian Household Income Survey data provided by the Malaysian Department of Statistics is used to provide evidence that the upper tails of the household income distribution follows a fractal based distribution known as power-law. Inequality measures are then applied to ascertain the levels of inequality based on this distribution. In addition to that, we analyzed the data in terms of different classes of occupation, obtained power-law exponents for each class and then highlighted the inequality between these classes.
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author	Fatimah Abdul Razak, Faridatulazna Ahmad Shahabuddin,
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author_facet	Fatimah Abdul Razak, Faridatulazna Ahmad Shahabuddin,
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title	Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view
title_short	Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view
title_full	Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view
title_fullStr	Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view
title_full_unstemmed	Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view
title_sort	malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2018
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12411/1/29%20Fatimah%20Abdul%20Razak.pdf
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Malaysian household income distribution: a fractal point of view

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