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Phillips Curve - Switzerland

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  Phillips Curve Switzerland has maintained a very steady rate of unemployment throughout the past 10 years. This has resulted in a chart showing mostly inflation data and some extreme events of unemployment. The average inflation rate for the past 10 years was close to 0 and the average unemployment was 7.75. This graph does not reflect the Phillips curve mainly due to the consistent national unemployment rate. The low points in inflation do not reflect on unemployment and vice versa. Although the Phillips curve is accurate theoretically, I believe that the central bank and unemployment systems affect the way the Phillips curve would work in a real situation.  Sources:  https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG?end=2021&locations=CH&start=2010&view=chart   https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS?end=2021&locations=CH&start=2011  
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Netherlands Phillips Curve

 Netherlands Phillips Curve The Netherlands Inflation Rate vs. Unemployment rate does not fit the Phillips curve. The only portion of the curve that slightly resembles it would be the line from unemployment rate of 0 to 6 (excluding the initial v shaped line that is from 4.25 to 0). In that portion of the graph the interest rate is decreasing while the unemployment rate is increasing. However, the rest of the graph does not represent a Phillips curve and doesn't show any inverse relation between unemployment and inflation. There are two periods of stagflation which is at the point where the inflation rate equals 2.5% and the unemployment rate is 5.8% and 7.2%. There aren't any periods with very low inflation and very low unemployment. I think this does not really represent the phillips curve, because inflation and unemployment will not always be inverse, and some factors in an economy could cause unemployment to rise while inflation rises, or unemployment to fall as inflation f...
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