Bismans, Kristof; Lauwers, Luc; Ooghe, Erwin - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2006
The Pigou-Dalton principle demands that a regressive transfer decreases social welfare. In the unidimensional setting this principle is consistent, because regressivity in terms of attribute amounts and regressivity in terms of individual well-being coincide in the case of a single attribute. In...