Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … rate of unemployment. This 'wage curve' is found to have an elasticity of approximately -0.1. Contrary to the Phillips …

This paper, which follows in an LSE tradition begun by Phillips and Sargan, examines the role of unemployment in … a variety of data sets as a check on the robustness of results, and 3) studies the effects of unemployment on the real … curve. The curve has a negative gradient at low levels of unemployment, but becomes horizontal at relatively high levels of …

unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …