At its September meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee noted the importance of earnings growth for the inflation outlook and suggested that firms had in part squeezed pay to offset the effect of rising import costs. Without a further fall in sterling, pay growth might therefore now pick up. But we think rising unemployment has played the bigger role, implying that pay growth will instead slow further.
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