1817 T. R. Malthus (ed. 5) I. i. ii. 31 An increased number of labourers receiving the same money-wages will necessarily, by their competition, increase the money-price of corn.
1955 6 June 10/3 Many of the gains that labour has been getting through new contracts are not so much increases in money wages as in so-called ‘fringe’ benefits—such as larger pensions and welfare payments.
1992 A. Leijonhufvud in A. Vercelli & N. Dimitri ii. 22 The inelasticity of price expectations reduces the amplitude of fluctuations in money prices and money wages.