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Politically sustainable probabilistic minority targeting

De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - 2014

We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...

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Politically sustainable probabilistic minority targeting

De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - 2014

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Politically Sustainable Probabilistic Minority Targeting

De Donder, Philippe - 2014

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Paradoxes of social policy : welfare transfers, relative poverty, and redistribution preferences

Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - 2015

matter to poverty and the dimension that matters to redistribution preferences. The undermining paradox emphasizes that the …Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality" claims that universal … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme …

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Paradoxes of social policy : welfare transfers, relative poverty and redistribution preferences

Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - 2014

dimensions that matter to poverty and the dimension that matters to redistribution preferences. The undermining paradox …Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality" claims that universal … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme …

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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...

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