rosyatrandom comments on A potentially great improvement to minimum wage laws to handle both economic efficiency as well as poverty concerns - Less Wrong

0 Post author: VijayKrishnan 26 July 2011 12:07AM

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Comment author: rosyatrandom 25 July 2011 10:37:11PM 1 point [-]

So... what we have here is a kind of minimum and maximum entitlement: x/2 and x, with incentives to work more to get more back. Interesting

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 25 July 2011 10:50:35PM 1 point [-]

The article proposal is between 0 and x/2 (not that it changes much).

Comment author: Sniffnoy 25 July 2011 11:42:42PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, thinking about it in terms of how much total you get, rather than how much additional you get, you can always pick some minimum and maximum and make a linear function to fit. (Though you want minimum<maximum, obviously...) Then you can subtract off x to get the entitlement part. Of course at the maximum the entitlement is always 0.