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  "abstract": "Tax-benefit policy acts most directly on whether adults work. We show that the response-threshold rule by which social insects divide labour and the extensive-margin participation curve share one functional form when the private cost of working is additive and log-logistic; an assumed participation elasticity then implies the exponent. The correspondence defines a tax-benefit design problem with three objectives-participation, welfare and fiscal cost-whose exact supported Pareto front we compute, and an eleven-instrument version for single adults and lone parents. It also drives MOEA/D-DoL, a decomposition-based algorithm whose subproblems are served by threshold-driven workers that compare their success with the colony's. By IGD, MOEA/D-DoL beats its MOEA/D-DE core clearly on two of seventeen benchmarks, both used in its design, and on two of nine held-out WFG problems, losing on one benchmark; AR-MOEA, NSGA-III and NSGA-II rank higher on both suites. The schedules that raise participation most at no extra cost lower the guaranteed income and pay an in-work credit financed by a higher tax rate. This direction survives joint calibration draws, a 100% cap on marginal rates and wider instrument ranges, but the tax is cheap partly because hours do not respond, and the gain varies in size.",
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    "School of Labor Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China.",
    "College of Business, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing 314001, China."
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      "name": "Ge Liang"
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      "name": "Xinyu Cai",
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/40gq4exzxyqw6.bib",
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  "doi": "10.3390/biomimetics11100766",
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  "pdf_url": "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13702391?pdf=render",
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  "published": "2026-10-21",
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  "title": "A Shared Threshold Rule for Ants and Workers: Multi-Objective Design of Labour-Force Participation Policy and a Division-of-Labour Evolutionary Algorithm.",
  "title_text": "A Shared Threshold Rule for Ants and Workers: Multi-Objective Design of Labour-Force Participation Policy and a Division-of-Labour Evolutionary Algorithm.",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:22:01Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/40gq4exzxyqw6",
  "venue": "Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)",
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