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The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality … multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …
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This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them …
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or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such …
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This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … income-component inequality and in between -an within- group inequality. This can help shed light on the theoretical and … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare …
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whether the market and governmental redistribution factors have affected their evolution during the last decade. We focus on … the dynamic of inequality, polarization and progressivity of the fiscal system. The results of this study confirm the … effectiveness of governmental redistributive mechanism to decrease inequality and polarization significantly and to maintain the …
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More and more economists and politicians are advocating the use of comprehensive measures of well-being, on top of the usual national accounting measures, to assess the welfare of populations. Researchers using subjective well-being data should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the...
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system and go further to demonstrate how the different taxes and benefits contribute to the total redistribution effect. A … inequality and high redistributive effect for some specific figures of transfers. The contribution from Vertical Equity (VE) is …
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of a public pension system: the contribution rate and its degree of redistribution. The pension regime affects …
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The paper simulates the redistributive impact of three possible scenarios for the introduction of a basic income (BI, also sometimes called "citizens' income") in Québec. The simulations are revenue neutral at the joint provincial-federal government level. The first scenario assumes that a set...
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Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice...
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