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Educational attainment, unemployment, and wage inflation

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Mary C. Daly
Osborne Jackson
Robert G. Valletta

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We investigate the impact of rising educational attainment on wage inflation and the equilibrium (non-inflationary) rate of unemployment. Rising educational attainment may reduce wage pressures by shifting the composition of the labor force towards groups with lower equilibrium unemployment rates, or it may increase wage pressures through increased reliance on groups whose wages are relatively responsive to changes in unemployment. A measure of aggregate unemployment adjusted for changes in the age and education structure of the labor force performs well in Phillips curve estimates of the wage inflation process but does not substantially improve the ability to forecast wages or materially alter the estimates of the equilibrium unemployment rate. We also estimate models of wage inflation that are disaggregated by educational attainment and find that college-educated workers face a sharper trade-off between labor market tightness and wage growth than do other groups. We find that forecasts of wage inflation derived from the disaggregated relationships perform better than those from aggregate wage equations.

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Pages: 49-61
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Keywords: Education Wages

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  6. Robert J. Gordon, 1982. "Inflation, Flexible Exchange Rates, and the Natural Rate of Unemployment," NBER Working Papers 0708, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Takhtamanova, Yelena & Sierminska, Eva, 2008. "Gender differences in the effect of monetary policy on employment: The case of nine OECD countries," IRISS Working Paper Series 2008-04, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD. [Downloadable!]
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