Den Haan, Wouter, Ellison, Martin, Ilzetzki, Ethan,McMahon, Michael, Reis, Ricardo, (2017), “Flexible labour markets, real wages, and economic recoveries: Views of economists”, VoxEU, 30 May
Real hourly wage growth has behaved quite differently across countries over the past ten years. This column describes how the majority view of the latest Centre for Macroeconomics and CEPR expert survey is that low growth of real wages has had a positive impact on European employment rates during the recovery phase of the Great Recession. A strong majority of respondents also agrees that the dire performance of UK real wage growth relative to the big Eurozone economies is in large part due to the UK’s labour market policies, which provide workers with comparatively weak protection.
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- Fric, Karel, (2017), «Growth Of Minimum Wages Accelerates Across Europe», Social Europe, 27 February
- European Commission, (2016), «Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe – Annual Review 2016», European Commission, 27 October