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Effets redistributifs d'un régime d'allocation universelle: une simulation pour le Québec
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Blais, François - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696291
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Poverty-Efficient Transfer Programs: The Role of Targeting and Allocation Rules
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing transfer program reforms. The methods are based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670275
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Poverty-dominant program reforms: the role of targeting and allocation rules
Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2002
We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be decomposed simply as sums of targeting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770804
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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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The Economy-wide Impacts of the South African Child Support Grant: a Micro-Simulation-Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Tiberti, Luca; Maisonnave, Hélène; Chitiga, Margaret; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
We examine the economy-wide impact of the child support grant (CSG) on the South African economy using a bottom-up/top-down approach. This allows us to estimate the potential effects on households’ welfare and on the economy following a change in the CSG. Three simulations are presented, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631616
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Measuring Progressivity and Inequality
DUCLOS, Jean-Yves - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1995
A general class of progressivity indices is proposed which is consistent with the well-developed theory of the measurement of inequality and social welfare. In particular, we show that the more progressive a tax system, the more equal the distribution of net income and the greater the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670312
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696344
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Progressivity of Taxes and Transfers: the Mexican Case 2012
Huesca, Luis; Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014
system and go further to demonstrate how the different taxes and benefits contribute to the total redistribution effect. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739576
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Links between Labor Supply and Unemployment: Theory and Empirics
Wasmer, Étienne - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006
This paper discusses the various causal relations between unemployment and participation to the labor market, notably … various exogenous variations jointly affect unemployment and participation. Empirical tests based on time-series of OECD … unemployment rates. A variance decomposition exercise indicates that, in Continental Europe, participation is driven in the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795982
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Poverty-Decreasing Indirect Tax Reforms: Evidence from Tunisia
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
This paper suggests a methodology to identify socially-desirable directions for poverty-alleviating tax reforms. The cost-benefit ratio of increasing any commodity-tax rate is derived from the minimization of a poverty measure subject to a revenue requirement for the government. Further, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670286