Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World

Prachi Mishra and Antonio Spilimbergo

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, vol. 3, issue 4, pages 53-84

Abstract: 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 0.15 after a year for countries with high barriers to external labor mobility, but about 0.40 in countries with low barriers to mobility. The result is robust to the inclusion of various controls, different measures of exchange rates, and definitions of labor market integration. These findings call for including labor mobility in macro models of external adjustment. (JEL F16, F31, J31)

JEL-codes: F16 F31 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
Note: DOI: 10.1257/mac.3.4.53
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