The paper employs a rank-dependent formulation of the social welfare function with time-separable utilities to evaluate the economic consequences of income mobility from an ex-ante perspective. The resultant class of measures can be decomposed not only in terms of structural and exchange...

The paper employs a rank-dependent formulation of the social welfare function with time-separable utilities to evaluate the economic consequences of the mobility process underlying the transformation of the income distribution over time. The resultant class of measures can be decomposed either...

The paper employs a rank-dependent formulation of the social welfare function with time-separable utilities to evaluate the economic consequences of income mobility from an ex-ante perspective. The resultant class of measures can be decomposed not only in terms of structural and exchange...