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Does Ultra-Low Unemployment Spur Rapid Wage Growth?

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  • Sylvain Leduc
  • Chitra Marti
  • Daniel J. Wilson

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The unemployment rate ended 2018 at just under 4%, substantially lower than most estimates of the natural rate. Could such an ostensibly tight labor market lead to a sharp pickup in wage growth from its recent moderate pace, such that the relationship between wage growth and unemployment is not always linear? Investigations using state-level data show no economically significant nonlinearity between wage growth and unemployment that would predict an abrupt jump in wage growth.

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  • Sylvain Leduc & Chitra Marti & Daniel J. Wilson, 2019. "Does Ultra-Low Unemployment Spur Rapid Wage Growth?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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