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An Atkinson-Gini Family of Social Evaluation Functions
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2001
)) indices. Income inequality aversion is captured by decreasing marginal utilities, and aversion to rank inequality is captured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247841
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Liberté ou égalité?
Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006
Qu'es-ce que la liberté? Qu'es-ce que l'égalité? En quoi une plus grande égalité peut-elle accroître la liberté? Telles sont les questions principales auxquelles tente de répondre cet article. Le problème du choix entre liberté et égalité soulève en effet le problème de la...
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An Atkinson-Gini Family of Social Evaluation Functions
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1998
We propose a class of social evaluation functions and of inequality indices which merge the useful features of the family of Atkinson (1970) and of S-Gini (Donaldson and Weymark (1980, 1983), Yitzhaki (1983) and Kakwani (1980)) indices. These social evaluation functions can be interpreted as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696443
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An Atkinson-Gini Family of Social Evaluation Functions
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2014
)) indices. Income inequality aversion is captured by decreasing marginal utilities, and aversion to rank inequality is captured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128474
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Freedom or Equality? (Liberté Ou éGalité?)
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006
What is freedom? What is equality? In which way can greater equality increase freedom? Such are the main questions which this paper tries to answer. The problem of the choice between freedom and equality indeed raises the problem of the definition of these two objects. Once this definition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055775
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Mobility, taxation and welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011
Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare … comparative) impact of mobility and of the tax system (another presumed income equalizer) on the dynamics of income across time … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308021
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Testing for pro-poorness of growth, with an application to Mexico
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Audet, Mathieu; … - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007
This paper proposes techniques to test for whether growth has been pro-poor. We first review different definitions of pro-poorness and argue for the use of methods that can generate results that are robust over classes of pro-poor measures and ranges of poverty lines. We then provide statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005467347
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Testing for Pro-poorness of Growth, with an Application to Mexico
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Audet, Mathieu; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007
This paper proposes techniques to test whether growth has been pro-poor. We first review different definitions of pro-poorness and argue for the use of methods that can generate results that are robust over classes of pro-poor measures and ranges of poverty lines. We then provide statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015273
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Testing for Pro-Poorness of Growth, with an Application to Mexico
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Audet, Mathieu; … - 2018
This paper proposes techniques to test for whether growth has been pro-poor. We first review different definitions of pro-poorness and argue for the use of methods that can generate results that are robust over classes of pro-poor measures and ranges of poverty lines. We then provide statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051846
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Mobility, taxation and welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - In: Social choice and welfare 42 (2014) 3, pp. 503-527
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