Working Paper
Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State
Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth, Efraim Sadka
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 2003
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 2003
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.
CESifo Category
Public Finance
Public Finance
Keywords: affirmative action, optimal taxation, tagging
JEL Classification: D600,H200