Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage
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Keywords
deserving poor; minimum wage; redistribution; efficient rationing; negative marginal tax rate;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2014-12-19 (Labour Economics)
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