An examination of the reserve bank real wage‐employment relationshipFootnote∗

The authors wish to acknowledge the helpful comments of H.J. Baas, L.T. Evans, D.E.A. Giles, A. Grimes and G.M. Wells. In addition, we thank the Economics Section of the Reserve Bank for supplying the data used in this paper.

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