Income mobility

Evaluating patterns of income growth when status matters: a robust approach

This paper addresses the problem of ranking growth episodes from a microeconomic perspective.
While most of the existing criteria, framed in the pro-poor growth tradition, are either based on anonymous
individuals or are used to identify them on the basis of their status in the initial period, this
paper proposes new criteria to evaluate growth, which are robust to the choice of the reference period
used to identify individuals. Suitable dominance conditions that can be used to rank alternative growth

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