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Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004

The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski's (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated...

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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...

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Effets redistributifs d'un régime d'allocation universelle: une simulation pour le Québec

Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Blais, François - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

The paper simulates the redistributive impact of three possible scenarios for the introduction of a basic income (BI, also sometimes called "citizens' income") in Québec. The simulations are revenue neutral at the joint provincial-federal government level. The first scenario assumes that a set...

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Equity and Equality

Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice...

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Measuring Progressivity and Inequality

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1995

A general class of progressivity indices is proposed which is consistent with the well-developed theory of the measurement of inequality and social welfare. In particular, we show that the more progressive a tax system, the more equal the distribution of net income and the greater the...

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Testing for Poverty Dominance: an Application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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Social polarization vs income polarization: An international comparison

Echevin, Damien - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2008

Australian countries in the perspective of redistribution patterns. Presenting a simple theoretical framework, we argue that … comparing both types of polarization can help predict the level of redistribution in those countries. We thus propose an … accuracy test that consists in predicting a redistribution ordering between countries and compare it with the observed one …

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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...

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On the Decomposition of Polarization Indices: Illustrations with Chinese and Nigerian Household Surveys

Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the Duclos, Esteban, and Ray (2004) polarization index by population groups or income sources. In some cases, the decomposition methods were extend to the Esteban and Ray (1994)...

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