Productivity, wage and inflation relationship for a sample of developed countries: new evidence from panel cointegration tests with multiple structural breaks.

TitleProductivity, wage and inflation relationship for a sample of developed countries: new evidence from panel cointegration tests with multiple structural breaks.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsLadu, MG, Meleddu, M
JournalInternational Journal of Applied Economics
Volume13
Issue1
Pagination15-31
Abstract

This paper examinesthe long run relationship among real wages, inflation and labor productivity over the period 1960-2011, for 11 developed economies, using a comprehensive set of empirical tests. We present a dual-level analysis: first, we consider the panel properties of the data checking for panel cointegration with structural breaks, allowing also for cross sectional dependence; hence, we examine each country separately and we investigate the properties of the variables through a set of tests, controlling also for structural breaks in order to check for robustness of data. Results do not show evidence of a long run relationship.

URLhttps://www2.southeastern.edu/orgs/ijae/index_files/Page295.htm
Keywordscointegration, inflation, productivity, structural breaks, unit root, wages