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Quebec's Green Future: The Lowest-Cost Route to Green Gas Reductions
Bernard, Jean-Thomas; Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder (2009) 118
The authors say Quebec’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must face some key facts. First, the possibilities of an effective reduction of GHG emissions through the substitution of one energy source for another are limited in Quebec. Second, Quebec’s era of low-cost...
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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - 2015
increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513164
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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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Testing for pro-poorness of growth, with an application to Mexico
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Audet, Mathieu; … - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007
This paper proposes techniques to test for whether growth has been pro-poor. We first review different definitions of pro-poorness and argue for the use of methods that can generate results that are robust over classes of pro-poor measures and ranges of poverty lines. We then provide statistical...
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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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An Economic Analysis of Proposals to Improve Coverage of Longevity Risk
Boisclair, David; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Marchand, Steeve; … - Chaire de recherche Industrielle Alliance sur les … - 2014
of individuals taking into consideration inequality in life expectancy, temporal variability of income, and interactions …
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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - Chaire de recherche Industrielle Alliance sur les … - 2015
increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202913
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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210815
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An economic analysis of proposals to improve coverage of longevity risk
Boisclair, David; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Marchand, Steeve; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2015
of individuals taking into consideration inequality in life expectancy, temporal variability of income, and interactions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185609
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Partial multidimensional inequality orderings
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 3, pp. 225-238
The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … and follows the dominance approach to making inequality comparisons. By focusing on those below a multidimensional … inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate inequality. Some …
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