• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Wage Setting Under Different Monetary Regimes
  • Contributor: Holden, Steinar [Author]
  • imprint: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), 2002
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: monetary union ; wage bargaining ; inflation target ; equilibrium unemployment ; monetary regime
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  • Description: In an economy with large wage setters (like industry unions), the monetary regime affects the trade-off between consumer real wages and employment and profits faced by the wage setters. This paper shows that an exchange rate target, including participation in a monetary union, is likely to involve lower wages in the traded sector, and higher wages in the non-traded sector, than does a price target. An exchange rate target also involves higher prices on non-traded goods relative to traded goods. Overall welfare is likely to be higher under a price target.
  • Access State: Open Access