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The paper evaluates the impact of the Chinese minimum wage policy on consumption of low-wage households for the period 2002-2009. Using a representative household panel, we find that the consumption response to minimum wage income shock is increasing in the minimum wage share of household income...
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in non-labour costs, rises in product prices, and improvements in productivity. Cuts in employment are less popular and …
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Following the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP), the paper presents new estimates of downward real and nominal wage rigidity for Hungary. Results suggest that nominal rigidity is more prominent in Hungary than real rigidity. When compared to other...
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This paper presents new evidence on the flexibility of the Hungarian labor market, with special emphasis on wages. The results are based on a new survey on wage setting among Hungarian firms. The survey is part of the Eurosystem Wage Dynamics Network (WDN), and it is a harmonized questionnaire...
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limited impact on prices in the first year while, in contrast, changes in indirect taxes and employers' social security …This paper reviews the existing empirical evidence on the short-term impact on prices of fiscal variables and assesses … Commission and the OECD models. Overall, a broad consensus appears on the impact on prices of changes in individual government …
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This paper investigates the persistence of aggregate wages and prices in Portugal assuming a model of a unionized … system. Real wages and wage inflation emerge as especially persistent following an import price shock, while price inflation … wages is attributable mainly to unemployment shocks (about 80 percent), whereas variation in the forecast errors of prices …
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Inflation volatility is clearly important for structural analysis, forecasting and policy purposes, yet it is often …
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Following the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP), the paper presents new estimates of downward real and nominal wage rigidity for Hungary. Results suggest that nominal rigidity is more prominent in Hungary than real rigidity. When compared to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605418
sizeable share of aggregate uctuations in unemployment and in ation, that their pass-through to prices is very close to being …
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in non- labour costs, rises in product prices, and improvements in productivity. Cuts in employment are less popular and …
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