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Is the Phillips Curve back from the dead?

After years of falling unemployment, wage growth has finally been picking up in the major advanced economies this year. However, the forces that have kept a lid on pay growth over the past decade are likely to prevent it from rising sharply, even at historically-low rates of unemployment.

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