The Implicit Disability Tax

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A, i could imagine both. It is important to mention that disabled does not form y mean can't work. The implicit tax o disability is enormous. So what you're telling me is that the prime age male population is living in circumstances where their income is relatively sall dwarfed by the resources that notjust from the other member of the household. That's much more than ahundred % after you lose your disability payments once you get off over the threshold.

Why are fewer men working over the last few decades? Is a universal basic income a good policy for coping with the loss of employment? Economist Edward Glaeser of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what Glaeser calls the war on work--the policy changes that have reduced employment among prime-aged men. Glaeser does not see the universal basic income as a viable solution to the decrease in work especially if technology ends up reducing employment opportunities more dramatically in the future. The conversation also includes a discussion of the role of cities and the reduction in geographic mobility in the United States.