TY - RPRT AU - Blumkin, Tomer AU - Margalioth, Yoram AU - Sadka, Efraim TI - On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity – Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules PY - 2004/Apr/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 1125 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1125 AB - We consider a model of prejudice-driven discrimination, where the advantaged 'tall' discriminate against the disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare function to compare anti-discrimination legal rules with a non-discriminatory ('height-blind') income tax. KW - horizontal equity KW - optimal taxation KW - discrimination ER -