The phrase "wage change" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a change or adjustment in someone's salary or hourly pay rate. Example: The company announced that there will be a wage change for all employees starting next month.
On the contrary, internal devaluation becomes even more necessary – and the size of the relative wage change bigger – if the euro is to survive.
When census divisions were regressed separately with a two year period (one before and one after the minimum wage change), no significant effect was found.
U. S. Department of Labor, A Popularized Version of 21 Doctoral Dissertations, 1979 (based on "The Wage Change Process in the Construction Industry," MIT doctoral thesis).
One could compare the job-number trends before and after the minimum wage change - but that assumes no other relevant changes.
Jeffrey M. Perloff, "The Impact of Licensing Laws on the Wage Change Process in the Construction Industry," Journal of Law and Economics, XXIII(2), October, 1980: 409-28.
This final regression used every census division together along with seven years per state that were designated either before or after a minimum wage change.
But there were signs of that changing, both politically, through minimum wage changes, and economically, through job growth from small businesses.
But wait — how can a zero lower bound on wage changes explain rising wages?
"The Local Aggregate Effects of Minimum Wage Changes". Cooper, Daniel, María José Luengo-Prado, and Jonathan A. Parker, Working Paper.
Endogenous wage changes and sector mobility occur as labor market participants learn about these unobserved skills.
The research shows that those working in restaurants and shops will benefit most from wage changes.
