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Cost-push inflation

Describe cost-push inflation and its major source.

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It refers to inflation due to a rise in the cost of production, which causes aggregate supply to fall. Beyond a point any rise in costs are included in the price at which producers are willing to sell goods. This is reflected in as shifting up; with demand (AD) unchanged it causes higher prices in equilibrium.

One major source is minimum wage laws being enacted. These laws cause wage bills to raise that area a major and unavoidable part of total production costs.

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