Assume expectations of both prices and productivity are accurate,use the PS/WS relations, graphically illustrate and explain the effects of an increase in the productivity on the natural rate of unemployment
What will be an ideal response?
An increase in productivity shifts both the wage and the price-setting curves by the same proportion and thus has no effect on the natural rate.
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