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Behavior toward uncertain future inflation gives rise
to large diffuse externalities which result in market
failure and require introduction of legal restraints --
mandatory wage—price controls. Models of wage-profit
conflict and consumer vs. consumer rivalry are set out
in which…

The paper studies the microeconomic theory of inflation taxes and
marginal employment subsidies. It proves that under very weak assump-
tions (i) an inflation tax will reduce the 1ong—run equilibrium wage or
price and (ii) that a marginal employment subsidy…

Models of the labor supply behavior of single persons predict that a negative income tax (NIT) will always reduce the labor supply and
earnings of such persons. I consider three models of family labor supply; and find that in all…

I examine the extent to which workers who lose jobs find work in alterna-
tive employment arrangements such as temporary work, part-time work, and independent
contracting rather than as conventional full-time “regular” employees. The analysis is
based on data from…

This paper reports the results of surveys of specialists in labor economics and public
economics at 40 leading research universities in the United States. Respondents provided
opinions of policy proposals; quantitative best estimates and 95% confidence intervals for
economic parameters;…

In this paper we provide theoretical and empirical analyses of an
asymmetric-information model of layoffs in which the current employer is
better informed about its workers’ abilities than prospective employers
are. The key feature of the model is that when…

We report preliminary results of an analysis of the reaction of stock prices to
announcements of reductions in force (RIFs) using a large sample of such announcements
during the 1970-1997 period collected from the Wall Street Journal index. We find…

Despite earlier evidence to the contrary, recent inquiries appear to reach a consensus that the poor
pay more for food. However, these studies utilize samples drawn on the basis of prior
knowledge of unfair pricing strategies, proximity of volunteer surveyors,…