wage inflation
noun[U]
ECONOMICSukusthegeneralincreasein theamountpeopleearnovertime:
Thenationalunemploymentrateis solowthatwageinflationisboundtofollow.
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The bill was targeted at alleviating child poverty, and to correlate the allowance withwageinflation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As a result, workers are more likely to accept lowerwageinflationbut producers resist lowering price inflation.
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In contrast, producers attempt to protect their profit markup during recessions, as evidenced by the larger output price inflation relative to nominalwageinflation.
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Centralized bargaining aimed at trading wage moderation for welfare benefits and employment guarantees would lowerwageinflationin any type of policy environment.
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Nominalwageinflationis evident by the positive response to expansionary demand shocks in 29 industries.
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In all of these cases, demand variability increases nominalwageinflation, on average, over time.
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Producers attempt to maintain the stability of the profit markup by closely correlating nominalwageinflationto output price inflation during expansions.
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During recessions, the larger reduction of nominalwageinflationcompared to price inflation is not consistent with the implications of sticky-wage models.
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Overall, the statistically insignificant response indicates close correlation between industrial nominalwageinflationand price inflation, maintaining the stability of industrial profit markup during expansions.
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In the remaining industries, nominalwageinflationdecreases, on average, in the face of demand variability, with a negative coefficient that is statistically insignificant.
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