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The effects of inflation on wage adjustments in firm-level data: grease or sand?

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Erica L. Groshen
Mark E. Schweitzer

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An analysis of whether inflation facilitates adjustments to shocks or distorts relative prices, examining the wage-setting process across a panel of occupations and employers and finding that the costs of inflation may rise more rapidly than its benefits beyond quite modest rates of increase in the price level.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in its series Working Paper with number 9418.

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Keywords: Inflation (Finance) ; Wages;

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