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This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...
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"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the … government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that the MW institution is … politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. To examine the empirical relevance of our …
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We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...
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"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …
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. A minimum wage is an appropriate instrument for redistribution if and only if the public revenue gains from additional …
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which conditions is the minimum wage a better tool than other policy instruments to achieve income redistribution?; and …
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“blunt instrument” for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …
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which conditions is the minimum wage a better tool than other policy instruments to achieve income redistribution?; and …
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"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …
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