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Testing for Welfare Comparisons when Populations Differ in Size

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Zabsonré, Agnès - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

Assessments of social welfare do not usually take into account population sizes. This can lead to serious social evaluation flaws, particularly in contexts in which policies can affect demographic growth. We develop in this paper a little-known though ethically attractive approach to correcting...

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Testing for Poverty Dominance: an Application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015326

Liberté ou égalité?

Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

Qu'es-ce que la liberté? Qu'es-ce que l'égalité? En quoi une plus grande égalité peut-elle accroître la liberté? Telles sont les questions principales auxquelles tente de répondre cet article. Le problème du choix entre liberté et égalité soulève en effet le problème de la...

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Using a Canadian-American Natural Experiment to Study Relative Efficiencies of Social Welfare Payment Systems

Tanguay, Georges; Hunt, Gary; Marceau, Nicolas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2002

We study whether social welfare recipients may end up paying more for their grocery if social welfare payments are more concentrated over time. We first present a theoretical model showing that lower incomes in general and a lower lower bound of the income distribution lead to less mobility for...

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Equity and Equality

Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

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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Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease

Lacroix, Guy; Brouard, Marie-Ève - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

Research on health-related work absenteeism focuses primarily on moral hazard issues but seldom discriminates between … acute illness that can prove to be relatively debilitating. Our analysis is based upon the absenteeism of workers employed …

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Poisson Models with Employer-Employee Unobserved Heterogeneity: An Application to Absence Data

Angers, Jean-François; Desjardins, Denise; Dionne, Georges - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

function. We estimate the model to obtain the determinants of absenteeism using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the …

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Dionne, Georges; Dostie, Benoit - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

variations in such costs affect absenteeism decisions. We find an absence elasticity of -0.37. We also find unobserved …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015261

New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Dionne, Georges; Dostie, Benoit - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005

In this paper, we provide new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism using the Workplace Employee Survey (WES … work to include firm-level policy variables relevant to the absenteeism decision and uncerainty about the cost of … absenteeism. It also provides a non-linear econometric model that explicitly takes into account the count nature of absenteeism …

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Are Foster Children Made Better Off by Informal Fostering Arrangements?

Kana, Legrand Yémélé; Dessy, Sylvain; Ewoudou, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

Research on the effects of informal child fostering arrangements on the welfare of the children involved highlights cross-country disparities. Why may there be differences across countries with regard to the effects of informal child fostering arrangements? If in all countries reporting a high...

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