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Incentive Effects of Some Pure and Mixed Transfer Systems

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  • Michael C. Barth
  • David H. Greenberg

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This article argues that the existence of a wage subsidy as the sole component of an income transfer system is both unlikely and undesirable. A mixed wage subsidy-public assistance program is defined. Using traditional analysis and new graphical methods developed in the article, the effects on labor supply of the mixed system are compared to those of a negative income tax and of a wage subsidy not augmented by other transfers. For certain reasonable sets of wage rates and hours of work, the work incentive advantage generally attributed to a wage subsidy disappears when that program is realistically defined. The range over which the conclusions are apt to be relevant is illustrated in an Appendix.

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  • Michael C. Barth & David H. Greenberg, 1971. "Incentive Effects of Some Pure and Mixed Transfer Systems," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 6(2), pages 149-170.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:6:y:1971:i:2:p:149-170
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    1. Robert A. Moffitt, 2003. "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program," NBER Chapters, in: Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, pages 291-364, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Timothy F. Harris, 2018. "Do SNAP Work Requirements Work?," Upjohn Working Papers 19-297, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    3. 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.
    4. Robert Moffitt, 2006. "Welfare work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 116(515), pages 441-458, November.
    5. Moffitt, Robert A., 2002. "Welfare programs and labor supply," Handbook of Public Economics, in: A. J. Auerbach & M. Feldstein (ed.), Handbook of Public Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 34, pages 2393-2430, Elsevier.
    6. Das, Debasmita, 2019. "SNAP Work Requirement and Food Insecurity," MPRA Paper 109964, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 01 Oct 2021.
    7. Timothy F. Harris, 2021. "Do Snap Work Requirements Work?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 59(1), pages 72-94, January.
    8. Robert Moffitt, 2002. "Milton Friedman, the Negative Income Tax, and the Evolution of US Welfare Policy," Economics Working Paper Archive 486, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics.
    9. Robert A. Moffitt, 2003. "The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 17(3), pages 119-140, Summer.
    10. John Greenwood, 2000. "Earnings Supplementation as a Means to Re-integrate the Unemployed," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 26(s1), pages 235-256, July.

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