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PRONUNCIATION OF WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL

wage-price spiral  [ˈweɪdʒˈpraɪs ˈspaɪərəl] play
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WHAT DOES WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Price/wage spiral

In macroeconomics, the price/wage spiral represents a vicious circle process in which different sides of the wage bargain try to keep up with inflation to protect real incomes. Thus, this process is one possible result of inflation. It can start either due to high aggregate demand combined with near full employment or due to supply shocks, such as an oil price hike. There are two separate elements of this spiral that coexist and interact: ▪ Business owners raise prices to protect profit margins from rising costs, including nominal wage costs, and to keep the real value of profit margins from falling. ▪ Wage-earners try to push their nominal after-tax wages upward to catch up with rising prices, to prevent real wages from falling. To maintain purchasing power equal to the rising costs reflected by a consumer price index, a taxable salary must increase faster than the CPI itself to result in an after-tax wage increase comparable to the increased cost of goods and services - unless tax brackets are indexed. So "wages chase prices and prices chase wages," persisting even in the face of a recession.

Definition of wage-price spiral in the English dictionary

The definition of wage-price spiral in the dictionary is a situation in which wage and price increases drive each other upward and cause inflation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL


adenoviral
ˌædɪnəʊˈvaɪərəl
agricultural
ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəl
cultural
ˈkʌltʃərəl
federal
ˈfɛdərəl
feral
ˈfɪərəl
general
ˈdʒɛnərəl
leptospiral
ˌleptəˈspaɪərəl
multispiral
ˌmʌltɪˈspaɪərəl
myxoviral
ˌmɪksəʊˈvaɪərəl
nadiral
ˈneɪdɪərəl
nonviral
ˌnɒnˈvaɪərəl
proviral
prəʊˈvaɪərəl
pyral
ˈpaɪərəl
retiral
rɪˈtaɪərəl
retroviral
ˌrɛtrəʊˈvaɪərəl
rural
ˈrʊərəl
scleral
ˈsklɪərəl
seral
ˈsɪərəl
spheral
ˈsfɪərəl
spiral
ˈspaɪərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL

wage packet
wage rates
wage restraint
wage rise
wage scale
wage settlement
wage slave
wage slip
wage spread
wage worker
wage-push inflation
waged
wageless
wagelessness
wagenboom
wager
wager of battle
wager of law
wagerer
wages

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL

achiral
admiral
antiretroviral
antiviral
arboviral
Archimedes spiral
barred spiral
chiral
decemviral
duumviral
Ekman Spiral
fleet admiral
hyperbolic spiral
inflationary spiral
logarithmic spiral
rear admiral
red admiral
vice admiral
viral
white admiral

Synonyms and antonyms of wage-price spiral in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wage-price spiral» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL

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The translations of wage-price spiral from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wage-price spiral» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

工资 - 价格螺旋上升
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

espiral de precios y salarios
570 millions of speakers

English

wage-price spiral
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मजदूरी मंहगाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دوامة الأجور والأسعار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ценовую спираль
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

espiral salários-preços
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মজুরি-মূল্য সর্পিল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

spirale prix-salaires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lingkaran harga gaji
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lohn-Preis- Spirale
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

賃金と物価の悪循環
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

임금 - 가격 나선형
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spiral wage-price
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lốc giá tiền lương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஊதிய விலை சுழல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेतन-किंमत आवर्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ücret fiyat spirali
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spirale salari-prezzi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spirali płacowo-cenowej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

цінову спіраль
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spirala prețuri-salarii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σπιράλ μισθών - τιμών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

loon - prys spiraal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

löneprisspiral
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lønns - prisspiral
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL»

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The Wage-Price Spiral: Industrial Country Evidence and ...
I. INTRODUCTION The spillover effects of nominal adjustments across labor and product markets are commonly known as the wage-price spiral. An increase in aggregate demand prompts firms to adjust prices upward to maintain or increase  ...
Magda E. Kandil, 2003
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Quantitative and Empirical Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamic ...
Introduction In this paper we reconsider the wage–price spiral from a Keynesian perspective. We construct distinct demand pressure indicators for the labor market and the market for commodities, and incorporate the error correction term  ...
Carl Chiarella, 2006
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The Economy As a System of Power
The Wage-Price Spiral Turning from corporate pricing policy, we shall conclude with an analysis of the wage-price spiral, the other primary linkage between power and the current crisis. The term has become a shorthand expression for ...
Marc Reed Tool, Warren Joseph Samuels, 1989
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The Macrodynamics of Capitalism: Elements for a Synthesis of ...
It is one basic working hypothesis of this book that this growth cycle mechanism will indeed be present in any model that really attempts to introduce a wage/price spiral and its dynamics into an otherwise more or less conventional type of ...
Peter Flaschel, 2008
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Disinflation in Transition Economies
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON THE WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL Wage and price equations of this or a similar form have often been used by researchers to examine various economic issues connected both with inflation (Gordon 1988; Blangiewicz ...
Marek Dąbrowski, 2003
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The Economics of Trade Unions
As a description of one sequence of events that takes place during an inflation, the concept of the wage-price spiral is valid and graphic. However, the view that wage increases play a crucial causal or initiating role in the inflationary process is ...
Albert Rees, 1989
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What Role for Government?: Lessons from Policy Research
... in the implicit price deflator for personal consumption expenditures. It was as if a sequel had been made to a 1 973 disaster film. OPEC II and the Wage-Price Spiral Stephen G Cecchetti, David McClain, Michael J McKee, and Daniel H Saks .
Richard J. Zeckhauser, Derek Leebaert, 1983
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Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in ...
The debate over controls The seemingly obvious remedy for the wage-price spiral is to regulate prices and wages by public authority. In World War II and the Korean War in the United States demand pressed strongly the capacity of the labor ...
Hugh Rockoff, 2004
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The New Industrial State
But demand must not be too greatly in excess of this level. If it is, there will be inflation outside the planning system, i.e., where the wage-price spiral is not a factor. And the pressure of demand within the planning system will be too strong for ...
John Kenneth Galbraith, 2007
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Memos to the President: A Guide Through Macroeconomics for ...
In 1979 through 1982, Brazil, with its highly indexed wage system, was devastated by the induced effects of the large oil price increase, resulting in a huge wage-price spiral. In the U.S. economy, automatic cost-of-living clauses have often ...
Charles L. Schultze, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAGE-PRICE SPIRAL»

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Opinion: You can see higher wages everywhere but in the data
There's no wage-price spiral in our immediate future. The other wage data published by the government show the same story: The average hourly earnings ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
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Inflation slips back to zero
He said tomorrow's pay data would help gauge whether a wage-price spiral was likely to develop and when the Bank is likely to pull the trigger on hiking interest ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
3
The hopeful quest for 'full employment'
The quest ended unhappily: a wage-price spiral peaking at 13 percent inflation in 1980. No one wants to repeat that debacle. But today's full-employment ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
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The Threat of Bubbles, Not Inflation, Should Guide Fed Policy
In the nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties, there was very real danger of a wage-price spiral (in which rising wages and prices become self-reinforcing, ... «The New Yorker, Mar 15»
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Higher Wages, Lower Prices Give Consumers A Break
Economists usually worry about a "wage-price spiral" taking hold. That's when workers are earning more, but losing buying power as prices rise. For now, at ... «NPR, Feb 15»
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Americans Haven't Had A Raise In 35 Years, But Something Else Is …
This creates a wage-price spiral: higher wages push prices higher, which in turn pushes wages higher and so on. The Federal Reserve works to strike a balance ... «MainStreet, Feb 15»
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First Take: Watch wage growth, not job gains
The danger is a wage-price spiral. When prices increase in a tight labor market, employees can ask for — and get — higher wages. Ultimately, that can become ... «USA TODAY, Dec 14»
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Abheek Barua: The right questions
It also set off a wage-price spiral that intensified as the MGNREGA wages began to be indexed to consumer price inflation. But here's the most important bit. «Business Standard, Oct 14»
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Wage price spiral a concern – Reserve Bank
PRETORIA – The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) remains concerned about the risks of a wage-price spiral, “should settlements well in excess of inflation ... «Moneyweb.co.za, Sep 14»
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Janet Yellen's Fed is more revolutionary than Ben Bernanke's ever …
Until the global financial crisis of 2008-09, the price spiral that peaked in 1980 ... The result is the classic wage-price spiral at the heart of the Great Inflation, or so ... «Quartz, Aug 14»

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