The distributional incidence of growth: a non-anonymous and rank dependent approach

Flaviana Palmisano

No 39, SERIES from Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"

Abstract: This paper provides a normative framework for the assessment of the distributional incidence of growth. By removing the anonymity axiom, such framework is able to evaluate the individual income changes over time and the reshuffling of individuals along the income distribution that are determined by the pattern of income growth. We adopt a rank dependent social welfare function expressed in terms of initial rank and individual income change and we obtain complete and partial dominance conditions over di¤erent growth paths. These dominance conditions account for the different components determining the overall impact of growth, that is the size of growth and its vertical and horizontal incidence.

Keywords: Growth; Pro-poor; Inequality; Income mobility; Dominance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 277
Date: 2012-07, Revised 2012-07
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