Cet article s'interesse a la courbe inegalite-chomage. Notre point de depart est une commentaire de l'evolution de cette courbe eb France, au Japon, aux Etats-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne. Ensuite, notre discussion est consacree a l'illustration theorique et normative de cette courbe a long terme....

The paper considers the problem of comparing income distributions for heterogeneous populations. Following Atkinson and Bourguignon (1987), we divide the population in different groups of needs and evaluate the social welfare with a utilitarian function. By considering the Generalized...

This paper highlights the implications for EU macroeconomic policy at a relatively disaggregated level when key economic relationships are nonlinear or asymmetric. Using data for the EU and OECD countries we show that there are considerable non-linearities and asymmetries in the Phillips and...

This study seeks to discern whether the current distribution of income determines the evolution of future income distribution and economic growth through fiscal policy. Fiscal policy consists of transfer payments or an income tax. Fiscal policy is determined by the level of development,...

This paper's goal is to increase the understanding of the inequality trends during the transitional period in China. From 1978 to 1995, China has been undergoing 18 years far-reaching economic system reform and opening to the outside world nationwide. During the transitional periods, the average...

Does more inequality lead to more efficiency in the management of common property resources? To answer this question, an attempt is made to develop relevant theoretical models and to articulate them with empirical evidence drawn mainly from social science studies.

Nous etudions des familles de distributions bivariees du revenu et de l'age, mais aussi du statut professionnel par l'intermediaire de leurs densites marginales et conditionnelles sur plusieurs annees. Un concept d'invariance est introduit afin de decrire l'evolution dans le temps de ces...

The goal of this paper is to model the mean (aggregate) consumption expenditure of a large and heterogeneous population of households. The aggregation process is based on assumptions of how the income distribution and the composition of the population evolves over time (structural stability). It...

A class of inequality measures that is a natural companion to the popular Lorenz curve is the class of measures that are linear in incomes. These measures, which include the Gini and S-Gini coefficients, can be interpreted as ethical means of relative deprivation feelings. Their change through...

Ce papier vise a evaluer la pertinence des differents types de modelisation macroeconomique en equilibre general pour mesurer l'impact des chocs de politique economique sur l'incidence de la pauvrete et la distribution du revenu.