Income mobility and horizontal inequity are two common examples of the phenomenon of “distributional change”: the transformation of an “old” distribution vector into a “new” distribution vector. An attempt is made to supplement the sundry ad hoc methods of measuring this change with a system of axioms that might command support as general principles of measurement. Variants on the axiom system are examined and the associated class of measures is derived.
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Frank Cowell (1985) studied this question.
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