This paper studies the mechanisms underlying the apparent stability of the income distribution in Taiwan. An original decomposition methodology based on micro-simulation techniques is proposed. Applied to the distribution of income in Taiwan since 1979 it permits isolating the respective impact...

This paper provides a short survey of the recent theoretical and the empirical literature on the existence of a negative relationship between economic inequality on one hand, and growth or economic development on the other. The emphasis of the paper is on the lessons to be drawn from these...

Relatively little research has been conducted until now on the multidimensional aspect of poverty measurement, that is poverty measures defined on various income and non-income attributes and their gaps with respect to pre-specified subsistence levels. The present paper investigates the...

Le modele presente dans cet article est base sur l'idee que l'education augmente la productivite et la participation politique des citoyens. Une oligarchie capitaliste est supposee detenir initialement le pouvoir dans une economie en developpement ou la masse des travailleurs est peu eduquee....

This collective approach to household consumption behavior tries to infer from variables supposed to affect general bargaining position of household members information on the allocation of consumptions goods and tasks among them. This paper investigates the extension of previous work to the...

This paper presents a simple model of the links between education, democratization and economic developmnet. In a context of imperfect capital markets, we investigate the incentives for a capitalist oligarchy to subsidize the education of poor workers and to initiate a political transition.

A prototype multicoutry static microsimulation model has benn built to simulate tax and social benefits in a number of European countries. This part of a prepatory study funded by the the EC to examine the possibility of builiding a comprehensive EU wide integrated microsimulation model. The...