IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mes/postke/v48y2025i1p103-123.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An empirical analysis of the relationship between real wage appreciation and inflation in Brazil

Author

Listed:
  • Tainari Taioka
  • Fabio Henrique Bittes Terra

Abstract

This paper analyzes if there was a transmission from the policy of real minimum wage adjustments undertaken in Brazil from 1995 to 2016 to consumer inflation. The literature that grounds the analysis is post Keynesian economics. To measure the impact of the minimum wage appreciation policy on inflation, the econometric strategy consisted of the VAR (Vector Autoregression) method. The study researches the Brazilian economy between 2003 and 2016, as this was the period in which the policy occurred. The empirical results indicate that the real readjustments of the minimum wage passed to inflation, but the value of this transmission was small.

Suggested Citation

  • Tainari Taioka & Fabio Henrique Bittes Terra, 2025. "An empirical analysis of the relationship between real wage appreciation and inflation in Brazil," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(1), pages 103-123, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:postke:v:48:y:2025:i:1:p:103-123
    DOI: 10.1080/01603477.2024.2366798
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01603477.2024.2366798
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01603477.2024.2366798?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mes:postke:v:48:y:2025:i:1:p:103-123. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/MPKE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.