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Inflation stabilization and the vanishing size-wage effect.

The author examines wage patterns under an incomes policy in Mexico in 1987-94. The policy specified increases in the minimum wage rate, but also guided salary negotiations more generally. The author finds indications of a substantial but largely temporary effect on wage rates, and evidence consiste...

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Published in:Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 103 - 123
Main Author: Woodruff, Christopher
Format: Article
Published: Cornell University October 1999
Subjects:
Incomes policy (Economics)
Economic stabilization
Wage differentials
Price inflation
Wages
Minimum wage
Mexico
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