The Inefficiency of Unemployment: The Supervision Perspective

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Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Year: 1985
Volume: 100
Issue: 2
Pages: 373-387

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8.073 = (α=2.02 / 1 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

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Abstract

We study an example economy with costly labor monitoring under a wage-cum-supervision arrangement, where workers' utilities are not equalized across sectors (workers are identical to each other). Our main task is to look for (and find) a set of "flat" taxes and subsidies that bring about a Pareto improvement over the laissez-faire solution. We show that any of such welfare-improving schemes involves a tax on labor income from those workers whose utility is the lowest.

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RePEc Handle
repec:oup:qjecon:v:100:y:1985:i:2:p:373-387
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-25