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Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 39 (2006) 4, pp. 1073-1104

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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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

Equity and Equality

Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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Equity and Equality

Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006

Is horizontal equity (HE) the quot;most widely accepted principle of equityquot;? Or does it stand in quot;opposition to the advancement of human welfarequot;? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779593

Mobility, taxation and welfare

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

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Multidimensional poverty and child well-being in Kenya

Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 2, pp. 109-137

Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple aspects of child well-being can help, however, reveal complexities and ambiguities in the distribution of child well-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child...

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Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: an Integrating Approach

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Jalbert, Vincent; Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …

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Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: an Integrated Approach

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Jalbert, Vincent; Araar, Abdelkrim - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2000

flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well-known Gini … inequality-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate …

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Bi-Polarization Comparisons

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

This note provides simple tests for first-order bi-polarization orderings of distributions of living standards. In doing so, the paper also offers an ethical basis and an interpretation for the common use of some simple measures of distances from the median. Illustrations using Luxembourg Income...

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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...

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