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Wage Indexation and Compensating Wage Differentials
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1986A stractThe theory of wage indexation implies that if workers are more risk averse than firms, then workers will pay a price in order to obtain wage indexation. This prediction is tested on a sample of 3,115 U.S. manufacturing collective bargaining negotiations from 1967 to 1982.
Hendricks, Wallace E, Kahn, Lawrence M
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Rural Hospital Wages and the Area Wage Index
Health care financing review, 2002We examined data on hospital hourly wages and the prospective payment system (PPS) wage index from 1990 to 1997, to determine if incremental changes to the index have improved its precision and equity as a regional cost adjuster. The differential between average rural and urban PPS hourly wages has declined by almost one-fourth over the 8-year study ...
Kathleen, Dalton +2 more
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On the Absence of Positive Wage Indexation
Economica, 1996This paper rationalizes the absence of positive wage indexation in labour contracts-that is, of indexing provisions that link wage increases to inflation. We investigate the equilibrium of a policy game in a stochastic economy in which wage-setters and a policy-maker interact strategically in order to determine the preferred degree of wage indexation ...
Bar-Ilan, Avner, Zanello, Alessandro
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The Firm, Wage Indexation, and Nominal Wage Rigidity
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016A new explanation for nominal wage rigidity is proposed when firms, as distinct from representative agents, can index wages. In general, the probability of contractionary monetary and real shocks, either alone or simultaneously, can make any degree of indexation optimal.
James M. Holmes +2 more
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Journal of Political Economy, 1983
The observed practice of contracting for labor services in advance introduces stickiness or friction into the economic system. In the presence of monetary and real stochastic disturbances the stability of the levels of employment and output hinges on the nature of the wage contracts.
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The observed practice of contracting for labor services in advance introduces stickiness or friction into the economic system. In the presence of monetary and real stochastic disturbances the stability of the levels of employment and output hinges on the nature of the wage contracts.
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Atlantic Economic Journal, 2002
Models of wage indexation uniformly have been based on the simplifying assumption that nominal wages adjust upward or downwrd symmetrically with unexpected price increases or decreases. Indexation typically is asymmetric in actual contracts, however. Wages are indexed to price increases but not to price reductions.
James P. Cover, David D. van Hoose
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Models of wage indexation uniformly have been based on the simplifying assumption that nominal wages adjust upward or downwrd symmetrically with unexpected price increases or decreases. Indexation typically is asymmetric in actual contracts, however. Wages are indexed to price increases but not to price reductions.
James P. Cover, David D. van Hoose
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INTEREST RATES AND WAGE INDEXATION
International Economic Journal, 1988This Paper shows that if wages are indexed to intrest rate and price level in a certain combination the effect of monetary disturbances can be removed. Further, it is shown that the indexation coefficients can be optimally chosen so that the effect of real distrubances on output is minimised.
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NOMINAL WAGE INDEXATION, QUASI‐EQUILIBRIA AND REAL WAGE DYNAMICS
Bulletin of Economic Research, 2010ABSTRACTIn contrast to the traditional static approach to indexation, this paper analyses the dynamic consequences for real wages of the mechanism that links nominal wages to inflation. Revisiting a contribution by Dehez and Fitoussi on macroeconomic fluctuations, I analyse a monetary overlapping generations small open economy in which full indexation ...
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Efficiency wages, wage indexation and macroeconomic stabilization
Economics Letters, 1989Abstract This paper examines the effects of nominal wage indexation on output variability when effort affects the productivity of labor inputs. Given this specification, it is shown that, contrary to Gray's (1976) result, full wage indexation is not destabilizing in the presence of supply shocks.
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Optimal Wage Indexation in a Multisector Economy
International Economic Review, 1991Optimal wage indexation is analyzed in an economy subject to common and sector-specific supply shocks and aggregate demand shocks where one sector has wage contracts and the other has a Walrasian labor market. It is shown that it is optimal in this setting to index wages partially to unanticipated economywide inflation and to industry-specific profits.
Duca, John V, VanHoose, David D
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