an example of a price floor is the minimum wage
Dick Fidler has written: 'Wage controls' -- subject- s -: New Democratic Party, Wage-price policy
Rent controls result in shortages and minimum wage laws result in surpluses
lifting wage and price controls in 1953
and preserve price controls
K. Holden has written: 'Introductory mathematics for economics and business' 'The economics of wage controls' -- subject(s): Wage-price policy 'Co-integration'
min wage is controled by congrass.
Economic Stabilization Act
Wage controls attempt to stop inflation
the government controls the price of gasoline
A minimum wage could be considered a price floor because it sets a wage floor on the price of labour. Since labour is an important factor of production, and price reflects the cost of production, then higher wages correspond to higher prices if there are no productivity gains.
J. C. Weldon has written: 'A critique of the tax-based incomes policy proposed by Sidney Weintraub' -- subject(s): Wage-price policy 'Wage controls and the Canadian labour movement' -- subject(s): Inflation (Finance), Mathematical models, Wage-price policy 'The attack on the democratic left' -- subject(s): Economic conditions, Socialism