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Real Wage Index Numbers

American Economic Review, 2011
Real wage index numbers have been used to measure movements in the standard of living of the typical worker. This paper describes some of these indicators for the United States and England. A new real wage index is proposed that resembles the sliding scale used to adjust wages in certain industries years ago.
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Wage Indexation, Employment and Inflation

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2000
Price versus productivity‐indexing is considered in a model of monetary policy with incomplete information and wage bargaining. In a perfectly price‐indexed economy, the inflationary bias due to lack of credibility is eliminated. However, productivity‐indexing is more appropriate to dampen macroeconomic fluctuations that are caused by real disturbances.
Francesco Drudi, Raffaela Giordano
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Wage indexation, migration, and unemployment

International Review of Economics & Finance, 2000
Abstract This article sets up a two-goods model with wage indexation and migrants. A dual labor market is introduced where the domestic workers receive an indexed wage while migrants receive a market-determined wage. The traded sector may be assumed to be unionized while the non-traded goods sector is non-unionized giving rise to flexible wages. This
Bharat R. Hazari, Pasquale M. Sgro
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Wage inflation, expectations and indexation

Journal of Monetary Economics, 1981
Abstract The study uses a direct measure of inflation expectations in testing the expectations augmented Phillips-curve with Finnish data. The impact of actual changes in prices is also analyzed, in particular, before and after the abolishment of idexation of wages in 1968.
Jouko Paunio, Antti Suvanto
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A quality adjusted wage index [PDF]

Economics Bulletin, 2006
In this paper, a new method of estimating a wage index is proposed and implemented. We construct a wage index by controlling for quantity, as well as quality of labor. Our approach uses a set of year dummies as the basis for calculation of a wage index.
Jennjou Chen, J. S. Butler
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Can Wages Be Universally Indexed?

1992
Those who advocate universal indexing of money-wage contracts are implying that, by contract, money wages can be made sticky in terms of some commodity standard. If it is feasible to have universal indexing of money wages, then the question still remains as to which commodity standard should wages be geared to, e.g., an international commodity market ...
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Does Employment Respond Differently to Minimum Wage Increases in the Presence of Inflation Indexing?

Journal of Human Resources, 2020
Peter Brummund
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Regional wage indexation

2017
Gordon L. Clark, Meric S. Gertler, John E. M. Whiteman   +2 more
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Wage Indexation in India

Social Scientist, 1987
Poonam Gupta, Sanjeev Gupta
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Partial Wage Indexation: An Empirical Test

International Economic Review, 1979
Razin, Assaf, Lusky, Judith
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