Impact of a Permanent Supply Shock on the Labor Market
A country experiences a permanent and significant increase in the global price of a critical imported raw material, affecting nearly all of its industries. Analyze how this event would alter the country's inflation-stabilizing unemployment rate. In your answer, explain the economic mechanisms that connect this persistent negative supply shock to the long-run structure of the labor market.
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