| Titre | Comparaisons de distributions hétérogènes et critères de dominance | |
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| Auteur | Patrick Moyes | |
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Revue | Economie et prévision |
| Numéro | no 138-139, 1999/2-3 Economie des inégalités | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Économie des inégalités |
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| Page | 125-146 | |
| Résumé anglais |
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 marginal distributions of needs can vary across the household populations studied. We assume that considerate planners use a utilitarian social welfare function to rank heterogeneous income distributions. Insofar as any individual can play the role of planner, we take the unanimist point of view that the planner's judgements have to comply with a certain number of basic normative principles. We impose increasingly restrictive conditions on the household's utility function and study their effects on the resulting ranking of distributions. This leads us to propose four dominance criteria to be used for an unambiguous ranking of income distributions for heterogeneous populations. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ecop_0249-4744_1999_num_138_2_5963 |
