[fre] L'évolution individuelle des salaires au cours de la vie professionnelle est encore très mal connue. Au-delà d'une période de cinq ans, on ne disposait jusqu'ici pour étudier la « mobilité » des salaires que d'un échantillon de cadres supérieurs. L'échantillon présenté dans...

This paper investigates the distribution of well being among world citizens during the last two centuries. The estimates show that inequality of world distribution of income worsened from the beginning of the 19th century to World War II and after that seems to have stabilized or to have grown...

Distributional issues may not have always been among the main concerns of the economic profession. Today, in the beginning of the 2000s, the position is different. During the last quarter of a century, economic growth proved to be unsteady and rather slow on average. The situation of those at...

Annotation, What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century? Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues

The paper analyzes the redistributive properties of the French tax-benefit system; it relies upon a simulation over a sample of French households. The approach is essentially comparative: we model the effects of introducing into the French structure elements from the British tax and benefit...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- Foreword to the English Edition -- INTRODUCTION. Globalization and Inequality -- CHAPTER 1. Global Inequality -- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1. Detailed Evidence on the Recent Changes in Global Inequality -- CHAPTER 2. Are Countries Becoming...

Cet ouvrage vient à point nommé compte tenu de quatre des objectifs de développement préconisés par le Comité d’aide au développement (CAD) de l’OCDE -- à savoir réduire l’extrême pauvreté, universaliser l’enseignement primaire, faire baisser les taux de mortalité infantile...