Dardanoni, Valentino; Marcello D’Agostino - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007
In this paper we investigate the problem of measuring social mobility when the social status of individuals is given by … their rank. In order to sensibly represent the rank mobility of subgroups within a given society, we address the problem in …-known “concordance” ordering. We then provide a characterization of an index of rank mobility based on partial matrices and show that, in …