According to the standard economic approach, the level of redistribution in a democratic society is growing with the inequality of the income distribution. However, data do not support such a finding. In this article, we assert that the canonical model fails Örst in its basic assumption, the...

Dans lapproche standard en économie dite de "lélecteur médian égoïste", le niveau de redistribution dans une société démocratique est censé croître avec linégalité de la distribution du revenu. Or les nombreuses études empiriques menées sur la question invalident cette relation....

This paper explores the consequences of pension reforms in Western Europe in a world economy setting. Whereas various economic and social consequences of population ageing have been investigated in OECD countries, very few analyses have explicitly taken the worldwide aspect of the problem into...