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Causes of Wage Increases in Swedish Manufacturing. A Remarkable Case of Regular Behaviour

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  • Schager, Nils Henrik

    (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))

Abstract

The present study is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the aggregate wage dynamics of Swedish manufacturing. It contains three essential results: •a rigorous search theoretical model of the wage behaviour of firms is presented and adapted for application to aggregate data •the implications of the model are confirmed by Swedish data for manufacturing industry and a stable wage drift equation is demonstrated to have existed since the mid-sixties •the model is consistent with the findings of earlier postwar empirical research on wage drift in Sweden and provides them with a more satisfactory theoretical interpretation.

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  • Schager, Nils Henrik, 1988. "Causes of Wage Increases in Swedish Manufacturing. A Remarkable Case of Regular Behaviour," Working Paper Series 195, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
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    1. Hibbs, Douglas Jr. & Locking, Hakan, 1996. "Wage compression, wage drift and wage inflation in Sweden," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(2), pages 109-141, September.
    2. repec:zbw:bofrdp:1991_021 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Tyrväinen, Timo, 1991. "Wage bargaining and the wage drift: Evidence from Finland," Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 21/1991, Bank of Finland.
    4. Tyrväinen, Timo, 1991. "Wage bargaining and the wage drift : Evidence from Finland," Research Discussion Papers 21/1991, Bank of Finland.
    5. Schager, Nils Henrik, 1988. "Search Theory, Downward Money Wage Rigidity and the Micro Foundations of the Phillips Curve," Working Paper Series 200, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.

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    Keywords

    Wages; manufacturing sector; wage drift;
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    JEL classification:

    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General

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