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Labor-Supply Effects of Income, Income-Work, and Wage Subsidies

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  • Jonathan Kesselman

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Three subsidy schemes for income maintenance are analyzed for their static incentive effects on labor supply. A discussion and critique of regressivity in schemes such as the "income-work" subsidy is offered. The dynamic incentive effects, the costs and benefits, and the redistributive patterns of the schemes are treated with political and social as well as economic considerations. Special attention is devoted to the analysis of a wage subsidy, which has been neglected in the literature on maintenance. The new labor supply is derived for a wage subsidy, and the effect of the wage subsidy in "guaranteeing jobs" and an analogy to the employer subsidy are described. An attempt is made to exploit the static incentive advantages of the wage subsidy over the two income subsidies treated here. The workability of categorical and "self-categorizing" combined wage-and-income subsidy programs is opened for further research.

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  • Jonathan Kesselman, 1969. "Labor-Supply Effects of Income, Income-Work, and Wage Subsidies," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 4(3), pages 275-292.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:4:y:1969:i:3:p:275-292
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    1. Wang, Yong & Ge, Yanxia, 2018. "The effect of family property income on labor supply: Evidence from China," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 114-121.
    2. R. D. Husby, 1993. "The Minimum Wage, Wage Subsidies, And Poverty," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 11(3), pages 30-38, July.

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