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Will rising unemployment resurrect the Phillips Curve?

Slower global growth will bring the downward trend in unemployment seen in developed economies in recent years to a halt and actually push unemployment up in some countries including the US. This should knock on the head any lingering risk of an imminent pick-up in wage growth and inflation. Indeed, more likely now is that slowing wage growth bears down on inflation.

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