From ABBA to Led Zeppelin: using music to teach economics
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Why Don't You Get a Job? - The Offspring

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He works his hands to the bone
To give her money every payday
But she wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend
You gotta say:

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job

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Assignment:

Researchers have questioned whether you can design a welfare system that provides a generous safety net, but not so generous that the effective marginal tax rate that the poor face when contemplating leaving welfare is too onerous. Explain why creating the right incentives to get productive people to leave welfare is so difficult.

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