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Preprint submitted on 20 Dec 2006 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the …

We characterize two different approaches to the idea of equality of opportunity. Roemer's
social ordering is motivated by a concern to compensate for the effects of certain (non …

How should income be distributed in a way that respects both the egalitarian ideal that
inequalities due to differences in opportunities should be eliminated and the liberal ideal …

When economists talk about equality, they typically have equality of outcomes, like welfare
or income in mind. However such a view of equality is not entirely satisfactory and theories …

Direct and indirect standardization procedures aim at comparing differences in health or in
health care expenditures between subgroups of the population after controlling for …

This paper discusses and develops “non-welfaristic” arguments on distributive justice à la J.
Rawls and AK Sen, and formalizes, in cooperative production economies,“non-welfaristic” …

It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the
consequences of changes in factors within our control are partly determined by factors …

In a model where individuals with different levels of skills exert different levels of effort, we
propose to use individuals' minimal rights to divide an extra amount of income generated by …

Liberal egalitarian theories of justice share the egalitarian ideal that inequalities due to
factors beyond individual control should be eliminated. This justifies that individuals …

Following Bossert (1995), we consider a model where personal income depends on two
different characteristics: skills and effort. Luttens (2010) introduces claims that individuals …