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The Change in the Relationship Between Unemployment and Earnings Increases: A Review of Some Possible Explanations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Extract

The Economic Review for February 1970 observed that: ‘In the last few years relationships which were previously reliable guides to likely rates of increase in wages and earnings have been giving less and less useful guidance, to the point of having become nearly irrelevant.’

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Copyright © 1970 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

This article was prepared by J. K. Bowers of Leeds University, P. C. Cheshire of the College of Estate Management (University of Reading), and A. E. Webb of the National Institute. Research on Regional Economic Development at the National Institute is financed by the Department of Environment.

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