Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bossert, Walter
Author-Name: Can, Burak
Author-workplace-name: Microeconomics & Public Economics, RS: GSBE ETBC
Author-Name: D'Ambrosio, Conchita
Title: A head-count measure of rank mobility and its directional decomposition
Abstract: We propose and characterize a new measure of rank mobility. The index is given by the head count of those whose positions change in the move from one period to the next divided by population size. The interpretation of this head-count ratio is straightforward and intuitive. In addition, we illustrate how the measure can be decomposed into an index of upwards mobility and an index of downwards mobility. The axioms used in our characterization results are appealing and easy to justify.
Classification-JEL: d63
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20170508
Number: 012
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/12447773/RM17012.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 327118
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2017012
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2017012