Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153536 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1102
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We investigate the wage-setting behavior of French companies using an ad-hoc survey conducted specifically for this study. Our main results are the following. i) Wages are changed infrequently. The mean duration of wage contracts is one year. Wage changes occur at regular intervals during the year and are concentrated in January and July. ii) We find a lower degree of down-ward real wage rigidity and nominal wage rigidity in France compared to the European average. iii) About one third of companies have an internal policy to grant wage increases according to inflation. iv) When companies are faced adverse shocks, only a partial response is transmitted into prices. Companies also adopt cost-cutting strategies. The wage of newly hired employees plays an important role in this adjustment.
Subjects: 
survey data
wage rigidity
wage-setting behavior
JEL: 
E3
D4
L11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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