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Ethical indices of income mobility. (English) Zbl 0599.90021

Ethical indices of income mobility measure the change in welfare resulting from mobility. The concept of mobility we explore consists of a welfare comparison between the actual time path of the income distribution with a hypothetical time path obtained by supposing that starting from the actual first-period distribution, the remaining income receipts exhibit complete immobility.

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91B82 Statistical methods; economic indices and measures
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