Showing papers by "Gary S. Fields published in 1997"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the distributional properties of poverty measures which are discontinuous at the poverty line, and showed that among all the additive poverty measures, only those measures with some discontinuous jump at poverty line are such that it is optimal to allocate a given antipoverty budget either to the richest of the poor, or to the poorest of the rich, or both.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effect of a wage floor on unemployment using a model with covered and non-covered sectors, using a comparative static analysis with respect to the size of the wage floor, the elasticity of demand for labor in the covered sector, and the linearity of the minimum wage in the noncovered sector.