Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
969116 Journal of Public Economics 2007 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
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.
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Anti-discrimination rules versus income taxation in the pursuit of horizontal equity
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