France: Selected Issues : Labor Market Developments and Wage Moderation in France in the 1990s

The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The distribution of wage and earnings growth has not been uniform across deciles. A breakdown in employment growth by wage deciles also suggests important composition changes. The deve...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports ; Country Report No. 01/198
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Summary:The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The distribution of wage and earnings growth has not been uniform across deciles. A breakdown in employment growth by wage deciles also suggests important composition changes. The development of key labor market variables has been discussed in this note. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is independent of changes in labor demand taxes and unemployment income
Physical Description:1 online resource (20 pages)
ISBN:1451813570:
ISSN:1934-7685
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