Agricultural wages and food prices in Egypt

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Agricultural wages and food prices in Egypt

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Datt, Gaurav
Olmsted, Jennifer

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Jennifer Claire Olmsted

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The trend in real agricultural wages in Egypt is described well by an inverted U-shaped curve with a peak around 1985. But the rise and fall of real wages masks a complex dynamic process by which nominal wages adjust in response to changes in food prices. We use governorate-level panel data for 1976–1993 to explore the nature of this adjustment process. Our results indicate that nominal wages adjust slowly. There is a significant negative initial impact of rising food prices on real wages, though wages do catch up in the long run.

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Paper provided by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in its series FCND discussion papers with number 53.

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