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THE WAGE-PRICE CONTROL EXPERIMENT--DID IT WORK?

Feige, Edgar L.; Pearce, Douglas K. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the consequences of the Nixon Administration’s policy of wage-price controls and finds that the controls were essentially ineffective in reducing inflation.

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A tax-based incomes policy that removes sectoral labour market imbalances

Hare, Ian P. - EconWPA - 2003

A modified version of a tax-based incomes policy (TIP) incentive tax is proposed that retains the aggregate wage-restraining effect of the tax proposed by Jackman and Layard, but in addition should help to speed the elimination of unemployment that results from the slow response of relative...

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On the Distribution of City Sizes

Cordoba, Juan Carlos - EconWPA - 2003

The city size distribution of many countries is remarkably well approximated by a Pareto distribution. We study what constraints this regularity imposes on standard urban models. We find that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto...

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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004

kotamadya could be caused by the big gap between big cities one another, e.g.: Jakarta, Surabaya, and others. The paper ends … with some suggestions of more attention to infrastructural development in eastern regional cities. …

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Lumpy World and Race to the Bottom.

Fabien, Candau - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents a model of the New Economic Geography which integrates commuting costs and land rent and displays a dispersion - agglomeration configuration when regional and/or international trade are liberalised. Two main results are found, the first one is that dispersion Pareto dominates...

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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally

Paul_Cheshire; Stefano_Magrini - EconWPA - 2004

. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating migration flows between cities in different countries are highly … systematic and highly significant factor determining rates of urban population growth is climatic variation. Cities with better … – including natural rates of increase in the areas of each country outside the major cities - are allowed for: there is no such …

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Economic Growth of Indonesian Port Cities

Landiyanto, Erlangga Agustino; Prasetyo, Arief Heru - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of this paper is to investigate what factors influence the growth of main Indonesian port cities. The … Medan) for period 1993-2001. This research found that growth in port cities in Indonesia determine by both manufacturer …

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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally

Cheshire, Paul; Magrini, Stefano - EconWPA - 2005

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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004

instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing controls on individual fixed effects, we find strong evidence of altruism …

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002

Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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