The paper extends previous results on welfare and inequality comparisons when incomes are weighted and the weights are not necessarily equal across the statistical units. A flexible approach to inequality measurement is allowed which admits as particular cases the relative and absolute views. We...

[spa] Evolución del carácter igualitario del con junto "impuesto sobre la renta/cotizaciones sociales" en la Quinta República, . por Alain Trannoy, Rachel Jehanne, Michel Lebreton y Patrick Moyes.. . El presente artículo tiene por objeto analizar la evolución del carácter igualitario del...

[eng] The family Quotient: a Tax Structure Consistent with the Relative Lorenz Criterion . by Patrick Moyes and Alain Trannoy . When households are identical in all characteristics other than income, an average rate of taxation increasing with primary income guarantees that disposable income is...

We are interested in the comparisons of standard-of-living across societies when observations of both income and household structure are available. We generalise the approach of A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (1987) [3] to the case where the marginal distributions of needs can vary across the...

We provide foundations for robust normative evaluation of distributions of two attributes, one of which is cardinally measurable and transferable between individuals and the other is ordinal and non-transferable. The result that we establish takes the form of an analogue to the standard...

[eng] Comparisons of Heterogeneous Distributions and dominance Criteria . by Patrick Moyes . This paper looks at standard-of-living comparisons when observations of both income and household structure are available. We generalise the Atkinson and Bourguignon approach (1987) in the case where...