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Emma Mitchell

Dr Emma Mitchell is a Macquarie University Research Fellow (MQRF). Her research focuses on culturally and linguistically diverse contexts of poverty, welfare, and housing and the care configurations that enable survival and make life liveable in hardship.

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If unemployment is the cure for inflation, who pays the price?

In recent weeks, economists have argued that a certain level unemployment is a necessary condition for the economy to function. They have argued that the Reserve Bank of Australia may need to raise interest rates higher, to increase unemployment, which is currently too low, in order to bring inflation under control.

Society & Inequality
If unemployment is the cure for inflation, who pays the price?