Download or read book Wage Indexation and Macroeconomic Stability written by Mr.Esteban Jadresic and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the seminal papers by Gray (1976) and Fischer (1977) were published, the major theorem of the wage indexation literature has been that indexing wages stabilizes output when shocks are nominal and destabilizes output when shocks are real. This paper reexamines the validity of this proposition taking into account the lags in actual indexation practices in an economy similar to that originally considered by those authors. It shows that in such a setup, wage contracts indexed to lagged inflation tend to destabilize output regardless of whether shocks are nominal or real.