• 11/30/2024

Analysis: Public-Sector Pay Hikes Unlikely to Spark Wage-Price Spiral

Wall Street Journal

The UK government’s offer last week to raise public-sector salaries has prompted some concerns of a wage-price spiral, but consequences for inflation—and therefore for BOE policy makers—should be relatively modest, analysts said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uk-public-sector-pay-rises-unlikely-to-spark-wage-price-spiral-analysis-8ec71ef6