Labor Supply and Targeting in Poverty Alleviation Programs
探讨了引入可变劳动力供给对发展中国家扶贫项目目标定位的影响，分析了不同努力价值评估对商品定位规则和边际有效税率基准的修正。
The introduction of variable labor supply raises some fundamental issues in analyzing the targeting of poverty alleviation programs in developing countries. It forces a reconsideration of the standard objective function, which is based on income or expenditure and so makes no allowance for the effort made in earning that income. We show that alternative views on the appropriate valuation of effort have very different implications for commodity-based targeting rules. We also establish a benchmark for marginal effective tax rates (inclusive of benefit withdrawal) in income-tested schemes and show that indicator targeting rules may also have to be modified significantly when labor supply responses are recognized.