Subsidies and corresponding lump-sum taxes

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President Alcazar announced an increase in the labor subsidy given to firms to try to boost employment and GDP. The subsidies received by a firm are in proportion to the number of workers it employs, that is equal to s N, where s is the subsidy rate and N the number of workers employed. The government pays subsidies to firms, whose post-subsidy profits are distributed to households as income. However, the subsidies are financed by a lump-sum tax on households. The lump-sum tax is such that the government budget is balanced. Show that, for any given level of real wages, the net direct effect of this policy, subsidies and corresponding lump-sum taxes, on household’s disposable income is negative.

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