 Non-anonymous growth incidence curves, Income mobility and social welfare dominancePost-Print from HAL Abstract: The distributional incidence of growth is generally analyzed by comparing the quantiles of the pre- and post-growth income distribution--e.g. the so-called Growth Incidence Curves. Such an approach based on an implicit re-ranking of individual incomes ignores income mobility by assuming that only post-growth income matters in social welfare. By contrast, this paper takes the view that "status quo matters" and that social welfare should logically be defined on both inital and terminal income. This leads to consider'non-anonymous' Growth Incidence Curves that plot income growth rates against the various quantiles of the initial distribution. Dominance criteria that generalize those available for standard growth incidence curves are derived, which account for the inequality of individual income changes, conditional on initial income. An application to the cross-country distributional feature of global growth illustrates the analysis. Keywords: Growth; Pro-poor; Inequality; Income mobility; Dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (4), pp.605-627. ⟨10.1007/s10888-010-9159-7⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00754500 DOI: 10.1007/s10888-010-9159-7 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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