Mobility as movement: A measuring proposal based on transition matrices

Jorge Alcalde-Unzu (), Roberto Ezcurra () and Pedro Pascual ()
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Roberto Ezcurra: Universidad Pública de Navarra
Pedro Pascual: Universidad Pública de Navarra

Economics Bulletin, 2006, vol. 4, issue 22, 1-12

Abstract: In this note we introduce a family of functions that various theoretical results have revealed as useful mobility measures. These functions have enabled us to circumvent an impossibility result obtained by Shorrocks (1978), by adapting one of his axioms to the context of mobility as movement. A particular case belonging to this family is the Bartholomew index, which is widely used in the empirical literature.

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Date: 2006-06-14
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