Secondary data-set have come to play an increasing role in empirical economic research. This paper examines the major new secondary data-set assembled by Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire and the World Bank. We concentrate on its coverage of the OECD countries. We have particularly in mind the user...

This paper investigates the distributional and efficiency implications of a tax-mix change involving a reduction in personal income taxation financed by a board based consumption tax.

В статье рассматриваются теоретические вопросы формирования института оплаты труда в рыночной экономике. Доказано, что функционирование института оплаты...

Wage functions provide much useful descriptive information about those characteristics of individuals which are associated with relatively high or low wage rates. In any cross-sectional survey there are many individuals who are not working at the time the survey is carried out. Such people may...

In this paper, we show that the third inverse stochastic dominances introduced by Muliere and Scarsini (1989) is nicely connected with the Yaari's dual model. We show especially that the third inverse stochastic dominance is closely linked with the non-negativity of third derivative of the...

The initial goal of this paper was to study how to characterize the behavior of an EU maximiser decision maler according to the sign of u[p], p-th derivative of his utility function. The answer is well-known for u', u'', has been studied for u''' (Menezes, Geiss ant Tressler, Kimball), u''''...

In a seminal paper, Kolm [14] introduces the principle diminishing transfer. This principle requires that a transfert from an individual with income x to one with income x - D(D 0) has a greater impact on social welfare the lower x is. On the other hand Mehran [15] and Kakwani [11] introduced...