Wayne Simpson is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the London School of Economics. He is a specialist in labour economics, applied microeconomics, quantitative methods and social policy, and has worked for the Bank of Canada and Economic Council of Canada. He is the author of Urban Structure and the Labour Market: Analysis of Worker Mobility, Commuting and Underemployment in Cities (1992) and co-author (with D. Hum) of Income Maintenance, Work Effort and the Canadian Mincome Experiment (1991) and Maintaining a Competitive Workforce (1996).  He has also published more than 50 refereed articles in economics and policy journals and numerous technical and research reports, book chapters, and other articles.  For further details, see  his curriculum vitae .