From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
Max Sawicky wrote,
It is one thing to say that overtime is bad for the
following economic reasons and we would like
to discourage it. It is another to put a social
price tag on overtime. The latter would suggest
the proper sort of tax.
Max Sawicky wrote,
It is one thing to say that overtime is bad for the
following economic reasons and we would like
to discourage it. It is another to put a social
price tag on overtime. The latter would suggest
the proper sort of tax.
I still get the feeling that you are using a conventional
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
Max Sawicky wrote,
How do you define the social costs of overtime?
Not costs to the worker and employer, mind you,
but to third parties.
That would inform the design of the tax.
I'm not sure I follow you on this one. The social cost of
Max Sawicky wrote,
If you want to use a variable standard, that
hardly simplifies things.
You're tying Gordion knots, Max. There are indexes for all kinds of things
unemployment, consumer prices etc. They're not "simple" either, nor are they
uncontroversial. Just wait and see: if the BLS put
Max Sawicky wrote,
How do you define the social costs of overtime?
Not costs to the worker and employer, mind you,
but to third parties.
That would inform the design of the tax.
I'm not sure I follow you on this one. The social cost of overtime is
unemployment (leaving aside excessive
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
relevant tax here an overtime tax. Define "overtime" as weekly hours worked
in excess of a standard attained by dividing total labour force hours worked
by total number of labour force participants (both employed and seeking
employment). This
Max Sawicky wrote,
immediate relevance is that business firms could
be handed 'user fees' or Pigouvian taxes (e.g.,
taxes that 'correct' externalities, like
pollution) and these would show up as costs in
any accounting framework. So would general taxes
on capital which financed goods whose
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
From ACCOUNTANTS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM:THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL COSTS
. . .
Sounds like the overhead costs of labor can be
translated as public goods in the neo-classical
sense of the term.
Don't get me wrong. I love public goods. At the
Tom Walker wrote:
Max Sawicky wrote,
immediate relevance is that business firms could
be handed 'user fees' or Pigouvian taxes (e.g.,
taxes that 'correct' externalities, like
pollution) and these would show up as costs in
any accounting framework. So would general taxes
on capital
Gar Lipow wrote, in response to my crude outline of an overtime tax:
Presumably layoffs, work which produced more than average injury, death,
mental illness, and addiction would also be taxed as well.
I agree in spirit, but have reservations in the letter. Presently layoffs
and injuries are
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