Title: Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad On the measurement of long-term income inequality and income mobility
Abstract: This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which accounts for the costs associated with income fluctuations and allows for credit market imperfections. The second step aggregates permanent incomes across individuals into measures of social welfare, inequality and mobility. To this end, we employ an axiomatic approach to justify the
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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