ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Lifting up the working poor: predistribution and redistribution at the low end of the wage spectrum
Minimum wages and taxes and transfers are prominent examples of pre and redistributive policies in the area of low pay in Europe and the U.S. Despite their pervasive coexistence and extensive research on their effects, the two have been mostly studied in isolation. This has limited our ability to evaluate their interplay in the labor market and identify joint design options to effectively support the working poor. With these goals, our first contribution is to examine the pre and redistributive components of low-income support jointly. We will develop an empirically grounded model of the low-wage labor market, which can be used to evaluate the impact of alternative joint designs of minimum…
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