The Distributional Incidence of Growth: A Social Welfare Approach

Palmisano, Flaviana; Peragine, Vito

doi:10.1111/roiw.12109

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“…Because of this, recent contributions have argued that pro-poor and welfare judgments of the effect of growth should be based on a 'non-anonymous' perspective (see notably Grimm, 2007, Jenkins and Van Kerm, 2011, Bourguignon, 2011, Palmisano and Van de gaer, 2013, Palmisano and Peragine, 2014. Proponents of this emphasize the role played by mobility in the distributional effects of growth.…”

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Intertemporal Pro-Poorness

2015

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A long-lasting scientific and policy debate queries the impact of growth on distribution. A specific branch of the micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty. Much of that literature supposes that the distributional impact should be measured in an anonymous fashion. The income dynamics and mobility impacts of growth are thus ignored. The paper extends this framework in two important manners. First, the paper uses an 'intertemporal pro-poorness' formulation that accounts separately for anonymous and mobility growth impacts. Second, the paper's treatment of mobility encompasses both the benefit of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the pro-poorness of distributional changes. The framework is applied to panel data on 23 European countries drawn from the 'European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions' (EU-SILC) survey.Keywords: pro-poorness, income mobility, growth, poverty dynamics.JEL Classification: D31, D63, I32 * We are very grateful to Philippe Van Kerm and Roberto Zelli for helpful suggestions and comments.

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“…In order to overcome this issue, a non-anonymous approach has recently been proposed, which relaxes the anonymity assumption and evaluates growth processes on the basis of individuals growth experiences and their identities (see, among others, Jenkins and Van Kerm, 2006;Grimm, 2007;Bourguignon, 2011;Palmisano and Peragine, 2015;Palmisano and Van de gaer, 2016;Dhongde and Silber, forthcoming). In this approach, the identity of individuals is defined on the basis of their status, namely their position in the initial distribution of income.…”

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“…However, the existing literature has developed dominance conditions in which the identification of individuals is exclusively based on their position in the income distribution of the first period (see, in particular, Van Kerm, 2009;Bourguignon, 2011;Palmisano and Peragine, 2015). This choice, though perfectly legitimate, is not the only one that is possible and is not supported by any normative grounded reason.…”

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Evaluating Patterns of Income Growth when Status Matters: A Robust Approach

Palmisano

2016

Review of Income and Wealth

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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 processes are derived by means of an axiomatic approach. Moreover, the theoretical results are used to rank the different growth episodes that have taken place in the past decade in Australia, Germany, Korea, Switzerland, and the U.S.

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“…Such approaches are becoming increasingly popular (Grimm, 2007;Van Kerm, 2009;Bourguignon, 2011;Jenkins and Van Kerm, 2011;Palmisano and Peragine, 2015). These approaches mainly employ the 'Non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curve' (na-GIC; see Bourguignon, 2011) also called the 'Mobility Profile' (Van Kerm, 2009), which plots the growth in mean income of those individuals belonging to the same quantile in the initial distribution of income as a function of their quantile in this initial distribution.…”

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History-dependent growth incidence: a characterization and an application to the economic crisis in Italy

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2016

Oxf. Econ. Pap.

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We propose a characterization of an aggregate measure of growth that takes into account the initial economic conditions of individuals. Our measure is a weighted average of individuals' income growth with weights that are decreasing with the rank of the individual in the initial income distribution. We apply our theoretical framework to evaluate the growth processes experienced by the Italian population. Even when we correct for the differences in mean income growth, and focus on the distribution of growth only, the 2008-2010 growth process was the worst of the last decade.

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The Distributional Incidence of Growth: A Social Welfare Approach

Cited by 26 publications

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