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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788339803321

Autore

Spilimbergo Antonio

Titolo

Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World / / Antonio Spilimbergo, Prachi Mishra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-3862-3

1-4519-9030-8

1-4518-7192-9

9786612842665

1-282-84266-8

Descrizione fisica

42 p

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

MishraPrachi

Soggetti

Foreign exchange rates

Foreign Exchange

Labor

Emigration and Immigration

International Migration

Trade and Labor Market Interactions

Wage Level and Structure

Wage Differentials

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Demand and Supply of Labor: General

Labour

income economics

Currency

Foreign exchange

Migration, immigration & emigration

Exchange rates

Wages

Labor markets

Real exchange rates

Migration

Population and demographics

Labor market

Emigration and immigration

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period 1981–2005, we find that the elasticity of domestic wages to real exchange rate is 0.1 after a year for countries with high barriers to external labor mobility, but about 0.4 in countries with low barriers to mobility. The results are robust to the inclusion of various controls, different measures of exchange rates, and concepts of labor market integration. These findings call for including labor mobility in macro models of external adjustment.