Author: Thomas A. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada Manufactures Mathematical models
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Wage and Price Behaviour in Canadian Manufacturing
Author: Thomas A. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada Manufactures Mathematical models
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Wage Controls in Canada, 1975-78
Author: Allan M. MaslovePublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780920380505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Canadian Business and Economics
Author: Barbara E. BrownPublisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy
Author: Morris AltmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113629340X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how high wage economies help make firms and economies more productive and why high wage economies can be competitive even in an increasingly globalized environment. It also demonstrates why concerns that labor supply will dry up as wages increase and social benefits rise are largely based on impoverished economic reasoning. The first chapters provide a theoretical basis for the rest of the book, showing for instance how higher wages are prone to increasing the level of economic efficiency by getting people to work harder and smarter (mainly smarter). Altman also explains that our understanding of technological change can be markedly improved by modelling technological change as a product of higher wages and improved working conditions and other shocks to the economic system. As the book develops, it is shown that increasing and high levels of income inequality are not necessary for growth and development, because the economic ‘pie’ grows when the economic wellbeing of the lower half and even the middle improves. The evolution of the state can also be better understood by applying this analytical framework. So too can the persistence of inefficient systems of production and cultural traits that appear to be inconsistent with economic prosperity. On top of this, the book examines the implications of Altman’s theoretical framework for macroeconomic analysis and policy. Finally, it is shown that labor supply can be better understood by introducing target income into the analytical mix. The main contribution of this book is providing the theoretical underpinning for why relatively high wages and, moreover, competition with high wages is good for dynamic growth and development. This work establishes why an alternative model of labor supply, based on the notion and reality of target income, does a better job of explaining the evolution of labor supply. The latter also reinforces the view that increasing wage and workers’ benefits should not be expected to damage the economy, even in the realm of labor supply. This book will be of interest to public policy experts, trade unions, human rights experts and scholars of behavioural economics, labour economics and globalization.
The Current Industrial Relations Scene in Canada
Author: Labour Costs in Canada
Author: Canadian Labour CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor costs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Examination of labour costs in Canada - covers wages, prices, profits, productivity, employment policy, wage policy, etc. References, and selected bibliography pp. 38 to 40.
Canadian Tax Papers
Author: Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls
Author: Robert L. Schuettinger.Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 161016525X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the market process through legislation. It always uses despotic measures to yield socially catastrophic results. It covers the ancient world, the Roman Republic and Empire, Medieval Europe, the first centuries of the U.S. and Canada, the French Revolution, the 19th century, World Wars I and II, the Nazis, the Soviets, postwar rent control, and the 1970s. It also includes a very helpful conclusion spelling out the theory of wage and price controls. This book is a treasure, and super entertaining!
The Illusion of Wage and Price Control
Author: Michael ParkinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780889750050
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description