This paper provides a theoretical analysis of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market. We show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment...

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market. We show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment...

"A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic...

Bekanntlich sind auf der Welt nur zwei Dinge sicher: der Tod und die Steuern. Allerdings scheint Benjamin Franklins Bonmot nicht für alle zu gelten. Multinationale Grosskonzerne entwickeln immer ausgeklügeltere Methoden, um ihre Gewinne am Fiskus vorbeizuschleusen, Steuerparadiese unterbieten...