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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7785

26 August 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 28
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/eu/employment
EP working paper on labour costs and wage policy in EMU

Luxembourg, 25/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - In its Economic Affairs Series, the Directorate General for Studies at the European Parliament has published a working paper on the cost of labour and salary policy in the EMU drafted, under the responsibility of Ben Patterson, by Daniel Gros and Carsten Hefeker, in which the authors mainly affirm that the impact of EMU on salary fixing behaviour is difficult to determine. Regarding the matter of knowing whether a rise in incomes would increase the...