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Pollution control under an urban binding minimum wage

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  • Hamid Beladi

    (Department of Economics and Finance, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469, USA)

  • Ralph Frasca

    (Department of Economics and Finance, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469, USA)

Abstract

In this paper, by using a generalized Harris-Todaro model that incorporates an urban non-polluting sector, and supposes a dual economy inherent in an LDC, we examine the backward incidence of pollution control on some key variables of interest. Given a relatively capital intensive polluting sector, stricter pollution controls may result in a reduction in unemployment, an increase in national income and migration from the agricultural sector. The results from our model differ from that of a previous model that demonstrated a reverse flow of labor to the agricultural sector from stricter pollution controls.

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  • Hamid Beladi & Ralph Frasca, 1999. "Pollution control under an urban binding minimum wage," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 33(4), pages 523-533.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:anresc:v:33:y:1999:i:4:p:523-533
    Note: Received: December 1997/Accepted: June 1998
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