The Backward-Bending Phillips Curve and the Minimum Unemployment Rate of Inflation: Wage Adjustment with Opportunistic Firms

Manchester School

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-50

  Palley, Thomas I ^a  

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EID: 0141923514     PISSN: 14636786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9957.00333     Document Type: Article

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