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Mobility, Taxation and Welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011
incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643549
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Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: an Integrating Approach
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Jalbert, Vincent; Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795984
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Bi-Polarization Comparisons
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
This note provides simple tests for first-order bi-polarization orderings of distributions of living standards. In doing so, the paper also offers an ethical basis and an interpretation for the common use of some simple measures of distances from the median. Illustrations using Luxembourg Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696307
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What is "Pro-Poor"?
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696332
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Mobility, Taxation and Welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665517
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Family Background, Family Income, Cognitive Tests Scores, Behavioural Scales and their Relationship with Post-secondary Education Participation: Evidence from the NLSCY
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
This paper exploits the panel feature of the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and the large diversity of measures collected on the children ad their families over 6 cycles (1994-1995 to 2004-2005) to explain high school graduation and postsecondary education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015242
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La formation continue, un moyen de réduire les inégalités salariales entre hommes et femmes?
Havet, Nathalie; Lacroix, Guy - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
L’objet de cet article est d’évaluer la valorisation salariale de la participation à une formation continue en entreprise, en centrant l’analyse sur les différences entre sexes. Pour ce faire, les données françaises de l’enquête Formation continue 2000 sont mobilisées. Elles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008630018
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The Gender and Poverty Impacts of Trade Liberalization in Senegal
Cockburn, John; Corong, Erwin; Decaluwé, Bernard; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
Developing countries are deeply engaged in trade negotiations at the bilateral, regional and international (WTO) levels. As imports, exports and tariff duties all occupy an important part of their economies, far-reaching impacts on production, labor and capital markets, household incomes and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512962
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Market Labor, Household Work and Schooling in South Africa: Modeling the Effects of Trade on Adults' and Children's Time Allocation
Mitik, Lulit; Decaluwé, Bernard - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009
, we find that, in the context of trade liberalization, gender inequality is likely to rise between adults and between boys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528551
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Developing Country Superwomen: Impacts of Trade Liberalisation on Female Market and Domestic Work
Fofana, Ismaël; Cockburn, John; Decaluwé, Bernard - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005
This study analyses the effects of trade liberalisation on male and female work in Nepal. Our contribution is principally based upon the leisure activities modeling on one hand, and the effects of male participation in domestic work with trade policy analysis on the other hand. While previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696264