traditions, political agents, and policy problems have opened up space for new thinking about work and welfare at critical … Income in the French Welfare Reform Debate; Marc-Antonie Sabaté -- 8. From ‘Second Cheque Strategy’ to ‘Basic Income’: Why …

-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of … deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation quasi-ordering obeys a weaker version of the principle of transfers: welfare … individuals and allocated to one arbitrary poorer individual. We identify the subclass of extended Gini social welfare functions …

We consider the notion of welfare stigma à la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants … by society when they are perceived as undeserving in the sense that they falsely claim to be eligible for welfare … benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma may be extended, with some probability, to all welfare claimants …