Measuring mobility

Frank Cowell () and Emmanuel Flachaire

No 199, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: Our new approach to mobility measurement involves separating out the valuation of positions in terms of individual status (using income, social rank, or other criteria) from the issue of movement between positions. The quantification of movement is addressed using a general concept of distance between positions and a parsimonious set of axioms that characterise the distance concept and yield a class of aggregative indices. This class of indices induces a superclass of mobility measures over the different status concepts consistent with the same underlying data. We investigate the statistical inference of mobility indices using two well-known status concepts, related to income mobility and rank mobility.

Keywords: Mobility measures; axiomatic approach; bootstrap. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2011
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