The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics is published in collaboration with the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). The journal is fully sponsored by the SSES and the SAGW so authors are not required to pay an article processing charge.
Do Wages Lead Inflation? Swiss Evidence
We construct a quarterly time series for nominal hourly wages and unit labour costs from 1975 onwards and investigate the empirical link between wages and CPI inflation in Switzerland in order to identify caus...