System wspierania zatrudnienia osób z niepełnosprawnościami w Polsce – Pigou kontra Coase
System of Employment of People With Disabilities in Poland: Pigou Contra Coase

Summary/Abstract: According to Ronald Coase, the problem of external costs is twofold: negative external effects generated by one entity cause loss for another, but the suppression of injustice is automatically a loss for the first one; he argued that in the case of well-defined property rights and low transaction costs, the problem of external effects can be solved through transactions between parties affected by these effects. This was in opposition to previous attempts to solve this problem through government regulation or taxation proposed by Arthur Pigou. Looking through the prism of the system of supporting employment of people with disabilities, the solution is decision whether it is profitable to limit the employment of efficient people or financial resources of employers in order to provide work for less-efficient people with disabilities, or to leave these people without support on the labour market. In each case, it is about doing the least possible social damage. This article presents both concepts on the example of the system of supporting the employment of people with disabilities in Poland.

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