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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...

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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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951611

REDISTRIBUTION

Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - 1999

This paper, prepared for the Handbook of Income Distribution (edited by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon), reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for, politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential...

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Redistributive effect of personal income taxation in Pakistan

Ahmed, Vaqar; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper studies the redistribution effect of personal income tax in Pakistan. We decompose the overall tax system in order to evaluate the contribution of rate, allowances, deductions, exemptions and credits. The structure given in Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, is applied to gross household...

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REDISTRIBUTION

Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1999

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The paradox of redistribution revisited : and that it may rest in peace?

Marx, Ive; Salanauskaite, Lina; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2013

There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … empirical underpinning of this claim is a strong inverse relationship at the country level between social transfer targeting and …

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Fair and efficent taxation under partial control

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...

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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...

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Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State

Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram Y.; Sadka, Efraim - 2021

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A Case for Taxing Education

Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - 2021

We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...

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