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Deadweight Loss

The loss of economic activity due to excessive taxation. For example, suppose a person on welfare is offered a job that pays more than he/she receives in welfare benefits. If taxes are too high, however, the person may find that his/her aftertax income is in fact lower than what he/she was receiving on welfare. The person might then rationally decide to stay on welfare. The deadweight loss is both the cost of keeping that person on welfare and the loss incurred from the economy at large from losing that person's production. It is also called the excess burden of taxation.

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Perda de eficiencia Perdida de eficiencia Perte pour l'economie			These losses are what economists call a dead-weight loss or welfare loss to society. A study of the impact of raising the minimum wage in South Dakota by Brown, Ralph J.; Johnson, Dennis A. / South Dakota Business Review PROPOSITION 2 The dead-weight loss effected by the mandatory resale-royalty statute implies that the welfare-distributive effects of the statute are the opposite of those claimed for it by its supporters. If art is resold, should the artist profit? by Mantell, Edmund H. / American Economist Under conservative assumptions, Feldstein estimates that the Social Security tax creates a dead-weight loss of about 20 percent of Social Security revenues ($67 billion dollars in 1995). Privatizing Social Security by TABARROK, ALEXANDER / Independent Review			Days in receivables Days Payable Outstanding Days to Cover Days' Sales in Inventory Ratio Days' Sales Outstanding DBH Dc DCF DCR DDA DDM DE de facto de minimis PUD de minimis settlement De-Horse De-Merger Dead Account Dead Assets Dead Cat Bounce Dead Hand Poison Pill dead load dead man's statute Dead Presidents Dead-End Job Dead-weight loss Deadbeat Deadhead Deadline Deadweight Loss Deal Flow Deal Stock dealer Dealer Bank Dealer Loan Dealer Market Dealer Option Dealer Options Dealer Paper dealer status Dealer's Spread Dealing Desk Dear Money Death Benefit Death Cross Death play Death Put Death Spiral Death Spiral Convertible Death Tax Death Valley Curve			dead-panned dead-panning dead-pans Dead-pay dead-piled Dead-pledge Dead-reckoning dead-reckoning analyzer dead-reckoning equipment dead-reckoning plot dead-reckoning position dead-reckoning tracer dead-reckoning track dead-roast Dead-Sea apple dead-smooth file dead-soft temper Dead-stroke Dead-stroke Dead-stroke hammer Dead-stroke hammer dead-time compensation dead-time correction Dead-tree Dead-tree Dead-tree media Dead-Weight Force-Standard Machine Dead-weight loss Dead/H Box 3, Y-Linked Deadbands deadbeat deadbeat deadbeat deadbeat algorithm deadbeat compass deadbeat dad deadbeat dad Deadbeat dads Deadbeat dads Deadbeat escapement Deadbeat escapement Deadbeat Nightlife Deadbeat Parent Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 deadbeat response deadbeats deadbeats deadbeats DEADBEEF deadbolt deadbolt Deadbolts Deadborn Deadbox before Dishonor deadboy Deadbult deaden deaden

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