Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 670
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753045
Cover Image
Fair and Effi cient Taxation under Partial Control:Theory and Evidence
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want tocompensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort.Such fairness considerations have been introduced in political economy and optimal incometax models with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360559
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229894
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State
Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram Y.; Sadka, Efraim - 2021
social welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317031
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318611
Cover Image
Competitive Market Efficiency and Income Distribution Non-Optimality : A Theorem on Income Redistribution
Ju, Jiandong - 2002
efficiency at aggregate level. Using an example, we show that redistribution can improve social welfare more than 25%. If rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113664
Cover Image
Chapter 12 Redistribution
Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 677-789). 2000
This paper 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 usefulness of apparently inefficient policy instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024197
Cover Image
Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Martinez Pabon, Valentina; Pessino, Carola - 2023
heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546273