We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

As a response to a changing labour market scenario and to the concerns for increasing costs and bad incentives of traditional income support policies, the last decades have witnessed, in many countries, reforms introducing more sophisticated designs of means-testing, eligibility and tagging. In...

In dem Beitrag erfolgt eine Analyse der Erreichbarkeit von Arbeitsplätzen in Schleswig-Holstein anhand verschiedener Messkonzepte. Die Untersuchung basiert auf einer Diplomarbeit, die am Institut für Regionalforschung der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel entstanden ist. Die für die...

This note considers a linear programming formulation of the problem of the firm. A neoclassical non-increasing labour demand function is derived from the solution of the linear program. Only a set of measure zero on this function, one or two points in the examples examined, provides equilibria...