Skip to main content
Unpublished Paper
Efficiency Mages. Mark-Up Pricing and Effective Demand
Economics Department Working Paper Series (1990)
  • Peter Skott, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Abstract
The combination of an efficiency wage approach with the explicit consideration of pricinq and product market conditions leads to the existence of a unique NAIRU. The value of the NAIRU can be influenced by a variety of supply side policies but aqqreqate demand policies may also play a role. The effort function will be related to workers' waqe aspirations and if waqe aspirations depend on past outcomes of the distributional struqqle then an important element of hysteresis is introduced into the system. Expansionary demand policies which increase employment will be asaociated with unanticipated inflation. Real waqes will fall below the neqotiated level and this may cause a qradual shift in waqe aspirations and in the effort function.
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 1, 1990
Citation Information
Peter Skott. "Efficiency Mages. Mark-Up Pricing and Effective Demand" Economics Department Working Paper Series (1990)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter_skott/59/