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 order to identify causality effects and assess the relevance of … wages as an indicator for short-run price changes. We find evidence that prices systematically influence wages whereas the …

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some …