Consider an economic model where the real wage that firms offer is fixed, regardless of the level of employment. In this economy, the rate of price inflation is determined entirely by the gap between the wage workers demand and the fixed real wage firms offer. If workers become much more aggressive in their wage demands, such that even a very small drop in the unemployment rate leads to a substantial increase in their wage claims, what does this imply about the relationship between unemployment and inflation?
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Consider an economic model where the real wage that firms offer is fixed, regardless of the level of employment. In this economy, the rate of price inflation is determined entirely by the gap between the wage workers demand and the fixed real wage firms offer. If workers become much more aggressive in their wage demands, such that even a very small drop in the unemployment rate leads to a substantial increase in their wage claims, what does this imply about the relationship between unemployment and inflation?
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