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On the relation between currency depreciation and wages

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  • Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
  • Massomeh Hajilee

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Devaluation is said to redistribute income from the poor, who have a high Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) to the rich, who have a low MPC. Assuming the high MPC group to be unskilled labour and the low MPC group to be skilled labour, we investigate the impact of currency depreciation on skilled and unskilled wage rates by drawing data from 18 countries. While in most countries we found short-run effects, the long-run effects of devaluation on both wage rates were limited to a few countries. Indeed in these countries, devaluation raised the skilled labour wages and reduced unskilled labour wages in the long run as theory dictates.

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  • Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee & Massomeh Hajilee, 2010. "On the relation between currency depreciation and wages," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(6), pages 525-530.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:17:y:2010:i:6:p:525-530
    DOI: 10.1080/13504850802112278
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    1. Abdallah, Ali, 2022. "Dépréciation réelle de la monnaie et croissance économique [Can real currency depreciation lead growth?]," MPRA Paper 113183, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    14. Muhammad, Shahbaz & Faridul, Islam & Muhammad Sabihuddin, Butt, 2011. "Devaluation and income inequality: Evidence from Pakistan," MPRA Paper 35522, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 21 Dec 2011.
    15. Carlos A. Ibarra, 2014. "Trade, investment, and capital flows:Mexico's macroeconomic adjustment to the Great Recession," Working Paper Series Sobre México 2014002, Sobre México. Temas en economía.
    16. Hajilee, Massomeh & Stringer, Donna Y. & Metghalchi, Massoud, 2017. "Financial market inclusion, shadow economy and economic growth: New evidence from emerging economies," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 149-158.
    17. Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee & Seyed Hesam Ghodsi, 2019. "On the Link between Value of the Dollar and Housing Production in the U.S.: Evidence from State Level Data," International Real Estate Review, Global Social Science Institute, vol. 22(2), pages 231-274.
    18. Hugo Iasco-Pereira & Fabricio José Missio, 2022. "Would a competitive real exchange rate be a driver of economic prosperity?," PSL Quarterly Review, Economia civile, vol. 75(303), pages 355-383.
    19. Hajilee, Massomeh & Stringer, Donna Y. & Hayes, Linda A., 2021. "On the link between the shadow economy and stock market development: An asymmetry analysis," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 303-316.
    20. Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Abera Gelan, 2019. "On The Link between Real Exchange Rate and Domestic Investment: Asymmetric Evidence from Africa," Journal of Economic Development, Chung-Ang Unviersity, Department of Economics, vol. 44(3), pages 1-17, September.
    21. Muhammad Shahbaz & Faridul Islam & Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt, 2013. "Devaluation and Income Inequality Nexus: Evidence from Pakistan," International Journal of Economics and Empirical Research (IJEER), The Economics and Social Development Organization (TESDO), vol. 1(4), pages 48-58, April.

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