Till labor cost do us part
Francesca Pancotto and
Filippo Maria Pericoli
International Economics and Economic Policy, 2014, vol. 11, issue 3, 395 pages
Abstract:
A sustainable long-run pattern in the relative competitiveness of Euro area countries is a key factor for the survival of the monetary union. We analyse the issue focussing on unit labour cost dynamics using cointegration analysis for the whole economy and for the manufacturing sector separately. Our findings show that the introduction of the Euro has increased, rather than decreased, the distance among member countries, as measured in the metric of unit labour costs. Dispersion of productivity rather than wage compensation suggests that persisting idiosyncratic dynamics are driven by real factors, i.e. diverging technological patterns rather than by monetary factors, expressed by wage compensation. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Keywords: Unit labor costs; Convergence; Competitiveness; Manufacturing sector; Cointegration; E31; O47; C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s10368-013-0258-3
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