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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: Brief Mathematical Analysis of Taxation/Welfare Systems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.023508.19370@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <1993Jan3.213507.3283@csi.uottawa.ca> <15155@cis.rand.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 02:35:08 GMT
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- It's certainly not the NIT system that would CAUSE disincentives;
- that's not what I said, at any rate. It's the current sorts of
- welfare systems that are in place that provide disincentives.
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- It is likely that there are "second-order" effects that would act as
- incentives for people to get off of welfare if they are able (health
- problems being a clear reason why someone might not be "able").
- 'Twould be interesting to determine just how they might affect the
- quantitative analysis.
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- The "tough" question is, will the "second-order" effects overpower the
- more blatant disincentives in the long run?
-
- I'd be interested in seeing where analyses of various welfare systems
- have been published; getting "hard information" would certainly beat
- the typical "Oh, I remember seeing something about this in some
- magazine/paper/TV report somewhere a few years ago", or the "Cousin
- Bill is on welfare, and we don't talk to him much. It's just
- terrible!"
-
- Academic journals have some biases, but by the time anything that
- doesn't involve pictures gets to TV, most of the REAL information
- tends to get boiled away, and it's typically a few years out of date
- :-).
-
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