Der IMK Report beschäftigt sich mit den anhaltenden Inflationsdifferenzen im Euroraum. Diese sind primär das Ergebnis einer uneinheitlichen Lohnpolitik und für die weitere konjunkturelle Entwicklung im Euroraum mit erheblichen Risiken behaftet. So identifiziert der IMK Report zwei mögliche...

Macroeconomically oriented wage policies had largely gone out of fashion. Instead, the prevailing view was that wage setting is just another market process comparable to market processes in goods markets. However, these theoretical approaches ignore some fundamental aspects of wage setting. For...

With the abolition of exchange rates the role of wage formation in the European Monetary Union changes fundamentally and national economic policy in particular fiscal policy faces new restrictions. These are analysed in the first two chapters. A major impact is expected for wage formation. To...