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Social-economical mobility and redistribution policy

  • Iacopo Borsi

    TEASistemi SpA, Pisa, Italy

  • Giorgio Busoni

    Universita di Firenze, Italy

  • Antonio Fasano

    Università di Firenze, Italy

  • Mario Primicerio

    Universita di Firenze, Italy
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Abstract

We present and discuss an integro-differential equation that models economic dynamics in a closed population. An ‘‘economic inequality index’’ is introduced and some examples are provided showing how changes in social mobility can produce increasing (or decreasing) social equity.

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Iacopo Borsi, Giorgio Busoni, Antonio Fasano, Mario Primicerio, Social-economical mobility and redistribution policy. Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. 25 (2014), no. 2, pp. 147–164

DOI 10.4171/RLM/672