wage curve

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wage curve

[′wāj ‚kərv]

(industrial engineering)

A graphic representation of the relationship between wage rates and point values for key jobs.

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--(1994b), 'Estimating a British wage curve, 1973-1990', Economic Journal, September, pp.

THE LACK OF WAGE GROWTH AND THE FALLING NAIRU

The current deal had already put clubs' income well ahead of the wage curve and in the past two years most have recorded a profit.

A billion pound broadcast bonanza yet fans are still being fleeced; The moral and financial case for sky high ticket prices has collapsed as clubs swim in cash and protests mount, argues ANTHONY VICKERS

In this 1969 paper, Lewis posited a market wage curve (the "market equalizing wage curve") whose slope depended on the underlying preferences of workers and employers.

Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?

Samuelson and Solow do not draw a wage curve in the manner of Phillips, but they take one as implicit, summarising the distinct behaviours of the different data groups as '[t]he apparent shift of our Phillips curve' (189).

The Genesis of Samuelson and Solow's price-inflation Phillips curve

Moreover, estimating the extent of wage rigidity in BiH is important for understanding monetary policy transmission mechanism between the Euro area and BiH and to analyze whether wage curve mechanisms are also in force in post-war BiH.

Phillips and wage curves: empirical evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

We use the Beveridge curve to substitute out n in the wage equation (19), from which we derive a relationship between w and [theta], labeled the "wage curve." The job creation condition can be rewritten in a similar way.

Does intra-firm bargaining matter for business cycle dynamics?

(1998), 'The German Wage Curve: Evidence from the IAB employment from West Germany', Economic Letters, 61, 135-142

European integration, labour market dynamics and migration flows

His book The Wage Curve with Andrew Oswald won Princeton University's Richard A.

NBER profile: David G. Blanchflower

Meta-regression analysis (MRA), as explained here, helps readers to distinguish publication selection from genuine empirical effects, and these ten essays applies these methods to topical areas such as the effect of common currencies on international trade, economic freedom and economic growth, the convergence of the legendary two percent, the wage curve, the effects immigration on wages, the international gender wage gap and the income elasticity of money demand.