With lower inflation than our competitors, we can still increase our real wages through lower nominal wage increases than in other countries,
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This year's " nominal wage increases were so high because the private sector did not believe the 13 percent official inflation target,"
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Workers have not yet recognized the extent to which their rising productivity has not yet been matched by increases in nominal wages,
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In the crisis, the exchange rates of many countries have fallen sharply, but their nominal wages have not gone up to compensate.
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If nominal wages and prices were " perfectly flexible ", they would always adjust so that there would be equilibrium in the economy.
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In this case, however, real wages can be depressed ( and Beveridge full employment restored ) if prices rise relative to nominal wages.
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Should, at that point, labor market tightness result in faster growth of nominal wage rates, there would be no offset from accelerating productivity.
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However, to Keynes, people will resist nominal wage reductions, even without unions, until they see other wages falling and a general fall of prices.
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The agency said monthly nominal wages in manufacturing for the Philippines reached $ 291.7 million, compared with Indonesia's $ 111.90 and Thailand's $ 168.60.
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Wages of labourers were high, but the rise in nominal wages following the Black Death was swamped by post-Plague inflation, so that real wages fell.