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Is Work Special? Justice and the Distribution of Employment

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I investigate from an egalitarian welfarist standpoint the issue of whether state-guaranteed employment should be offered as a matter of right to able-bodied poor citizens who suffer chronic or persistent unemployment. An affirmative answer is defended. One consideration supporting this right to work is that provision of transfer aid in the form of jobs rather than cash screens “nonneedy bohemians” from the class of beneficiaries. The main conclusion of the essay is defended from one objection based on efficiency wage models of the labor market and from another based on the alleged impossibility of maintaining the self-respect and self-esteem of able-bodied individuals who fail to earn their own keep independently in a market economy.

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  • Arneson, Richard J., 1990. "Is Work Special? Justice and the Distribution of Employment," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 84(4), pages 1127-1147, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:84:y:1990:i:04:p:1127-1147_21
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    1. Malte Jauch, 2020. "The rat race and working time regulation," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 19(3), pages 293-314, August.

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