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Minimum wage with optimal income taxation

Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2004

Minimum wage legislation is a standard policy tool in most countries. However, the overall merits of minimum wage are controversial due to its potential adverse effects on unemployment. In this paper we construct a simple model in which minimum wage plays an important re-distributive role,...

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Deserving poor and the desirability of minimum wage rules

Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014

In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...

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Taxing children: the re-distributive role of child benefits - revisited

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2010

In this paper, we challenge the conventional wisdom that due to the negative correlation between family size and earning ability, family size can be used as a 'tagging' device, and calls for subsidizing children (via child allowances) to enhance egalitarian objectives. We show that the case for...

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International tax competition : zero tax rate at the top re-established

Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - 2012

In this paper we extend the zero tax at the top result obtained in the closed economy case with bounded skill distributions for the case of unbounded skill distributions in the presence of international labor mobility and tax competition. We show that in the equilibrium for the tax competition...

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Labor migration and the case for flat tax

Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Shem-Tov, Yotam - 2011

In this paper we employ a tax-competition model to demonstrate that in the presence of migration the re-distributive advantage of a non-linear income tax system over a linear (flat) one is significantly mitigated relative to the autarky (no-migration) equilibrium. When migration threats are...

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The idea of jurisdictional representation in a federation : a proposal and illustrations from recent Canadian and US elections

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2020

The idea of proportional representation has been circulating for over two hundred years and is widely practiced, among other, in post-war Europe. The primary focus is to allow smaller parties, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in society systematic representation in the national...

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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are … interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were … convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy …

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