Sentences with phrase «wage inflation because»

The same thing could be going on nationally ------ little or no wage inflation because employers refuse to offer more, and nonunion employees have no bargaining power to demand more.

Markets have over-reacted to wage inflation because companies have not signaled higher input costs, says Dan Scott of Vontobel.

Not exact matches

Their unemployment rates go up even when the inflation - adjusted value of minimum wage declines, because macroeconomics swamps all.

«We need to be persistent and patient and prudent, because we're not there yet,» Draghi said, referring to the fact that EU inflation and wage growth have been disappointingly slow, despite the bloc's economic recovery since the financial crisis.

The wage pop [last Friday's 2.9 % growth in hourly wages] spooked the markets because investors, already skittish as valuations were a bit steep (though not as bad as people have been saying, given strong current and expected corporate earnings), envisioned this sequence: wage growth gooses price growth (i.e., inflation), which raises both market and Federal Reserve interest rates, which slows growth and shaves corporate profit margins.

Because nominal wage growth for a large fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).

Because nominal growth equals real growth plus inflation, both nominal wage and NGDP targets implicitly account for inflation while also focusing on indicators more likely to promote the goal of full employment.

Average wages may not be keeping up with inflation, but that is because employers are creating millions of low wage jobs in restaurants and the like.

But just because you don't see wage pass - through to prices doesn't mean that full - resource utilization, as proxied by low unemployment, won't drive up inflation.

Ultimately, we see the dollar weakening against the euro as real rates in the Euro Zone become more positive and strengthen versus the yen because inflation in Japan is picking up due to accelerating wage growth.

One important reason why they have been able to be so patient is because inflation and wage growth has been very cool.

As for specifics, Jon Cunliffe explained that he voted against the BOE's recent decision to hike the Bank Rate because of persistently weak domestic inflation in the U.K. and poor wage growth despite the weaker pound.