Incorporating affirmative action into the welfare state

Tomer Blumkin; Yoram Margalioth; Efraim Sadka

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.07.002

Incorporating affirmative action into the welfare state

Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth, Efraim Sadka

Department of Economics

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a novel aspect of affirmative action policy. We examine its redistributive role, asking whether in an egalitarian society, supplementing the tax-transfer system with an affirmative action policy would enhance social welfare. We demonstrate that affirmative action could be a desirable policy tool even if racial discrimination does not exist in the labor market.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1027-1035
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Public Economics
Volume	93
Issue number	9-10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.07.002
State	Published - 1 Oct 2009

Keywords

Affirmative action
Optimal taxation
Tagging

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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