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This paper provides a normative appraisal of the Canadian equalization transfers system. For that sake, the two-dimensional dominance criteria introduced by Atkinson and Bourguignon(RES, 1982) are used to compare the distributions of private and public good before and after equalization...
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Nous estimons 6 modèles où interviennent d’une manière tantôt substituable tantôt complémentaire trois facteurs de non-emploi : la faiblesse des incitations financières, une productivité inférieure au coût du Smic et des dysfonctionnements du marché du travail. L’étude du...
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We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated unrest. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and the attempts at substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators to assess reforms in such...
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real consumptions (measured at the individual level), literacy rate, infant mortality and violent crime rates (all measured … 1996. Furthermore, if one removes crime from the list of attributes, the dominance is shown to apply steadily over the …
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Dans l'ouvrage que Van Parijs a consacre en 1995 aux fondements philosophiques et economiques du projet d'allocation universelle, le chapitre IV est dedie au probleme du financement "soutenable" d'une telle mesure. Les "rentes associees aux emplois" y sont presentees comme un troisieme type de...
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En matiere de justice sociale, Hayek suscite un commentaire ambivalent: sous-produit d'une demarche evolutionnists, sa coherence et son realisme sont dificiles a prendre en defaut, consequences de fortes convictions liberales, la formulation adoptee est souvent provocante. A l'egard du "mirage...
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable correlates and on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ÔfocusedÕ transfer schemes that improve anti-poverty targeting performances....
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In this paper, we characterize and empirically implement robust normative criteria for comparing societies on the basis of their allocations of risks among their members. Risks are modelled as lotteries on the set of distributions of state-contingent pecuniary consequences. Individuals are...
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We derive the characteristics of firm-specific trade policies when industries consist of heterogeneous firms, and show how the informational requirements for policy design are thereby expanded. A consideration of these informational requirements indicates that governments will confront...
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En utilisant le modele du Principal-Agent pour decrire la relation qui peut s'etablir entre un trafiquant ou un membre d'une organisation criminelle et un organisme financier, nous montrons qu'il existe des incitations economiques a l'etablissement d'une negociation entre eux pour fixer les...
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