Labour Market Adjustments to Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries

Danny Leung and Terence Yuen ()

Open Economies Review, 2007, vol. 18, issue 2, 177-189

Abstract: This paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on labour market adjustments to exchange rate movements in Canadian manufacturing industries. Controlling for endogeneity using generalized method of moments estimation, it is found that during the 1981–1997 period, exchange movements have a substantial impact on labour input and that this impact has grown over time as the manufacturing industries have become more exposed to trade. In contrast, the exchange rate effect on real wages is estimated to be virtually zero for all manufacturing industries. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

Keywords: Labour markets; Exchange rates; F4; E23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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