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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an 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 can be socially beneficial by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402108
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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage
Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an 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 can be socially beneficial by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959627
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 6, pp. 1-17
This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991983
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 6, pp. 1-17
This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951611
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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage
Blumkin, Tomer - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an 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 can be socially beneficial by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047853
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A case for maximum wage
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim; Shem-Tov, Yotam - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 3, pp. 374-378
In this paper we demonstrate that supplementing the optimal non-linear income tax system with a binding maximum wage rule attains a Pareto improvement, by serving to mitigate the mimicking incentives of the high-skill individuals without entailing distortions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681755
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337632
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The job guarantee : design, jobs, and implementation
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2018
The job guarantee (JG) is a public option for jobs. It is a permanent, federally funded, and locally administered program that supplies voluntary employment opportunities on demand for all who are ready and willing to work at a living wage. While it is first and foremost a jobs program, it has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816870
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Peripheral diversity and redistribution
DESMET, Klaus; ORTUNO-ORTIN, Ignacio; WEBER, Shlomo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005
This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict … linguistic diversity is a better predictor of redistribution than linguistic polarization. We also find that incorporating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042944
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The determinants of social spending in Spain, 1950-1980, Are dictatorships less redistributive?
Espuelas-Barroso, Sergio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2010
allows us to study the relationship between dictatorships and redistribution. In addition to the level of social spending and … exactly, the ratio of social security contributions to social spending is used as an indicator of redistribution. The main …, which did not imply redistribution through government budgets. Therefore, in contrast to the political legitimacy theories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493789