BoE research identifies strong impact from long-term unemployment on inflation

Long-term unemployment may have greater impact than recent research has implied

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The Bank of England

Research published today by the Bank of England (BoE) has found statistical models used in recent literature may be underestimating the degree to which long-term unemployment impacts inflation.

Author Bradley Speigner challenges the use of linear Phillips curves when modelling wage inflation. In the working paper Long-term unemployment and convexity in the Phillips curve, he argues the data may imply a flat ‘curve' even if the reality is different.

"The intuition is simple; by the time the long

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