TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blumkin, Tomer
AU  - Danziger, Leif
        TI  - Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage
        PY  - 2014/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8418
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8418
        AB  - This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by serving as a screening device that targets benefits to the deserving poor. We also show that with a minimum wage in place, a negative marginal tax rate may not be optimal.
        KW  - deserving poor
KW  - minimum wage
KW  - redistribution
KW  - efficient rationing
KW  - negative marginal tax rate
        ER  -