Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82334 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers No. 52
Publisher: 
Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen
Abstract: 
The historical experience from the past 100 years or so indicates that parts of the labourmarket structure in Denmark are endogenously dependent on the monetary regime. A credible monetary regime that delivers on the final target of price stability gives a basis for inflation expectations firmly anchored around price stability, which facilitate the use of multiyear nominal wage contracts and a higher degree of decentralised wage formation among forwardlooking workers and employers. Lack of credibility of a monetary regime that results in high and volatile inflation makes shorter wage contracts based on centralised wage bargaining more attractive and encourages the use of inflation indexation of nominal wages. If labourmarket structures to some extent are endogenously dependent on the monetary regime, results and policy conclusions from theoretical models that treats these part of the economy as exogenous might be questionable.
Subjects: 
wage formation
labour-market structures
monetary regimes
Danish economic history
JEL: 
E42
J50
N13
N14
N33
N34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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