cost-push inflation

cost-push inflation definition - finance
Inflation that is caused by rising wages and benefits. As a result of rising compensation, employees may feel relatively wealthy and increase their purchases, which can produce inflation. Federal Reserve policymakers closely watched for cost-push inflation during the market boom of the late 1990s, but none emerged.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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