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Inégalités de revenus, marchés du travail et politique de transferts. Comparaison internationale et décomposition par sources de revenus

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  • Fitoussi, Jean-Paul

    (Institut des Sciences Politiques, Paris; Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, Paris)

  • Van Haeperen, Béatrice

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES))

Abstract

Les évolutions qui ont caractérisé le marché du travail se sont traduites par de substantielles modifications de la composition des revenus des ménages et ont pu affecter l'inégalité de la répartition de ces revenus. Notre objectif est d'analyser l'évolution de la contribution des différentes sources de revenus à l'inégalité du revenu total à la lumière des évolutions intervenues sur le marché du travail. Le champ de cette étude couvre la période allant de la fin des années septante au début des années nonante et s'étend à plusieurs pays. La méthodologie utilisée est celle de la décomposition d'un indice synthétique d'inégalité (indice de Gini) par sources de revenus. Les résultats de cette étude, en particulier ceux qui concernent les transferts dont la part dans le revenu a augmenté mais qui semblent devenus moins redistributifs, montrent la nécessité d'intégrer en une même problématique les politiques en faveur du marché du travail et l'avenir du système de protection sociale.

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  • Fitoussi, Jean-Paul & Van Haeperen, Béatrice, 1998. "Inégalités de revenus, marchés du travail et politique de transferts. Comparaison internationale et décomposition par sources de revenus," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 1998027, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
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    Keywords

    Inégalité de la répartition des revenus des ménages; chômage; politiques du marché du travail;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General

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