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"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669528
"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011666043
This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428828
"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the … government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that the MW institution is … politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. To examine the empirical relevance of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229263
Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation with two types of agents (workers and capitalists) we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481224
"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the … government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that the MW institution is … politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. To examine the empirical relevance of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830996
This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315566
Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to scale, or if there are no differences in ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052016
Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to scale, or if there are no differences in ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358969
Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation with two types of agents (workers and capitalists) we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988396