Rewarding Work

Since the 1970s, a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. The author states this as a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. He proposes a solution: a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ.

Autorentext
Edmund S. Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Klappentext

Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. No longer able to earn a decent wage in respectable work, many have left the labor force, and the job attachment of those remaining has weakened. For Edmund Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.


Zusammenfassung
Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and that of the middle class, resulting in the departure or frustration of much of the labor force. For Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. He proposes a novel solution.

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