[fre] Nous étudions une réforme des minima sociaux généralisant les conditions du cumul avec une activité rémunérée. Plus précisément, il s'agit d'octroyer une allocation dégressive à taux constant en fonction des revenus d'activité du type de l'allocation compensatrice de revenu....

We investigate the problem of how to perform comparisons of income distributions across families of different sizes. We argue that social welfare ought to be computed as the average individual utility instead of the average household utility as in most known criteria. We provide dominance...

[fre] Les minima sociaux en France : entre compensation et responsabilité par Marc Fleurbaey, Cyrille Hagneré, Michel Martinez et Alain Trannoy . Cet article propose une grille de lecture d'un système de transferts à partir de la notion de responsabilité individuelle : si le montant d'une...

This paper examines a reform of the French welfare system. More precisely, it is a question of granting a decreasing benefit according to earned income. The modulation of this benefit according to the family size and the rent is clarified in detail. Several alternatives of the reform are...

We investigate the problem of how to make welfare comparisons of income distributions hen a population allocation problem (how a population should be optimally divided over families for given resources) adds to the usual income allocation problem. Pro-family and anti-family stances are...