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Poverty orderings and intra-household inequality: The Lost Axiom

Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 24-33

We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the … knowledge of poverty among households. Poverty measurement is approached by the poverty orderings introduced by Foster and … results in terms of preservation of poverty orderings. We point out the main analogies and differences between inequality and …

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When Kolm Meets Mirrless: ELIE

Trannoy, Alain; Simula, Laurent - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2008

This article discusses the properties of Kolm’s ELIE proposal in the Context of optimal income taxation “à la Mirrlees”. It first shows that ELIE gives rise to non-standard type-dependent budget sets, which has important implications in terms of a minimum labour requirement. Second, it...

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An Exploration of Incentive-Compatible ELIE

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2008

Simula and Trannoy (2007) have shown that ELIE is confronted with implementation issues when the policymaker cannot observe the time worked by every individual. This paper tries to fix this problem. To this aim, it characterizes the second-best allocations which are the closest to ELIE (i) in...

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Origine sociale et état de santé des parents : Quelle influence sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte ?

Devaux, Marion; Jusot, Florence; Rochaix, Lise; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

Parmi les facteurs explicatifs proposés pour expliquer les inégalités sociales de santé, la littérature épidémiologique a récemment mis en avant l’influence du milieu social d’origine sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte, cette influence résultant à la fois d’un effet...

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Tel père, tel fils : l’influence de l'origine sociale et familiale sur la santé des descendants en Europe

Trannoy, Alain; Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This article analyses unequal opportunities for health related to original class and family background in Europe. The literature has recently highlighted the influence of original class background on health in adulthood and the existence of transmission between the generations. The data from the...

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Optimal Income Tax under the Threat of Migration by Top-Income Earners

Trannoy, Alain; Simula, Laurent - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

We examine how allowing individuals to emigrate to pay lower taxes changes the optimal nonlinear income tax scheme in a Mirrleesian economy. An individual emigrates if his domestic utility is less than his utility abroad, net of migration costs – utilities and costs both depending on...

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Shall We Keep Highly Skilled at Home? The Optimal Income Tax Perspective

Trannoy, Alain; Simula, Laurent - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

We examine how allowing individuals to emigrate to pay lower taxes abroad changes the optimal non-linear income tax scheme in a Mirrleesian economy. An individual emigrates if his domestic utility is less than his utility abroad net of migration costs, utilities and costs both depending on...

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Optimal Non-Linear Income Tax when Highly Skilled Individuals Vote with their Feet

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2006

This paper examines how allowing individuals to emigrate to pay lower taxes changes the optimal non-linear income tax scheme in a Mirrleesian economy. Type-dependent participation constraints are borrowed from contract theory. An individual emigrates if his domestic utility is less than his...

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Optimal Linear Income Tax when Agents Vote with their Feet

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 62 (2006) 3, pp. 393-415

Individuals, initially living in a Mirrleesian economy A, have outside options consisting in settling down in a laissez-faire country B while paying positive migration costs. We first examine the effect of the threat of migration, assuming participation constraints are taken into account for all...

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Optimal Non-Linear Income Tax when Highly Skilled Individuals Vote with their Feet

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2006

In this paper, individuals, initially living in a Mirrleesian economy A, have outside options consisting in settling down in a laissez-faire country B while paying positive migration costs. We first examine the impact of the threat of migration, assuming participation constraints are taken into...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292380