This paper presents a general procedure inspired by the Shapley value for decomposing any inequality indices by factor components or by sub-populations. To do so we define an inequality game. Despite the fact that the characteristic function is not super-additive in general and that the...

We prove two results for exchange economies with / goods, n individuals without any differentiability assumption: 1. the multiplicity of equilibria for at least one initial allocation is a necessary condition for the existence of the global transfer paradox; 2. the multiplicity of equilibria for...

This paper examines the extent and evolution of intergenerational earnings mobility in France. We use data from five waves of the French Education-Training-Employment (FQP) surveys covering the period 1964 to 1993. Our estimation procedure follows Björklund and Jäntti (1997)'s two-sample...

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Preliminary versions of most of the papers in this special issue of Annals of Economics and Statistics were presented at the annual conference of the ADRES (Association pour le Développement de la Recherche en Economie et Statistiques). This conference, untitled ``New Developments in Social...

This article examines how issues of equity in health economics can receive new light from recent and less recent developments in welfare economics and the theory of fair allocation. This developments deal with multiple dimensions of individual well-being in particular, and suggest new alleys for...