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Low underlying inflation challenges estimates that treat much of the euro area periphery’s unemployment as structural. Gregory Basile, Jonathan Fortun and Robin Brooks use the Phillips curve to compare unemployment gaps with inflation outcomes. Their June 2019 analysis argues that conventional measures understate remaining economic slack and overstate structural unemployment in those economies.
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Low underlying inflation challenges estimates that treat much of the euro area periphery’s unemployment as structural. Gregory Basile, Jonathan Fortun and Robin Brooks use the Phillips curve to compare unemployment gaps with inflation outcomes. Their June 2019 analysis argues that conventional measures understate remaining economic slack and overstate structural unemployment in those economies.
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Gregory Basile, Jonathan Fortun, Robin Brooks (2019). Global Macro Views: Nonsense Output Gaps and the Phillips Curve. Institute of International Finance.