[eng] The inequalities of net annual wages, estimated via the Gini ratio, declined by about 8 % between 1976 and 2000. The indicator fell from 0.322 to 0.296. By using the Gini decomposition and dividing the French population by age group, gender, occupational category, and geographic area, we...

L’économie des inégalités est une partie non négligeable de l’économie publique et du domaine de la justice sociale. Pour apprécier l’efficacité d’un principe de justice sociale (commutative, distributive, locale, etc.), les mesures d’inégalité sont souvent utilisées. Elles...

This article shows that the multidimensional Gini index is more complete than its unidimensional configuration in order to compute the contribution of each group to the overall inequality. In Languedoc-Roussillon, it indicates that the disparities are particularly generated by wage differences...