The Phillips curve suggests rising wages from low unemployment may increase inflation temporarily. High inflation may prompt Fed rate hikes, raising borrowing costs and wage demands. Despite ...
Inflation has climbed since 2021, as the labor market has tightened. Two historical data relationships can account for elevated inflation over the past two years: the Beveridge curve, which relates ...
New data covering the period since May 2023 have continued to follow the path of a nonlinear Phillips curve that shows the relationship between inflation and a particular measure of labor market slack ...