Since the 1960s, several countries have adopted incomes policies to control inflation that was interpreted as the result of a distributional struggle between business and labour unions. This theoretical framework, termed the "battle of the mark-ups", has also formed the basis for estimating...

Since the 19960s, several countries have adopted income policies in various forms to control inflation that had been interpreted as the result of a distributional struggle between business and labour unions. Recent writings on the NAIRU, however, ignore past policy interventions in the wage and...

Since the 1960s, several countries have adopted incomes policies in various forms to control inflation that had been interpreted as the result of a distributional struggle between business and labour unions. Recent writings on the NAIRU, however, ignore past policy interventions in the wage and...

Throughout most of the post-war period, the fight against inflation was one of the most important tasks of economic policymakers. For some months now, with ample spare capacity in major advanced industrial countries and inflation receding in the wake of the fall of oil prices, some commentators...

A just income distribution is an important goal of economic policy. Thus the question to what extent this goal has been achieved in comparison to other countries is an important subject of economic research, but, as in many other countries, the statistical basis for an analysis of the personal...