how are workers affected by stagnation 
stagnation is evident with higher unemployment and falling wages making it difficult for individual workers to compete for jobs and wages the bottom linestagnation is a period of little or no growth in an economy characterized by a growth of less than 2 3 annually as measured by gross domestic product gdp stagnation can be caused by business cycles shocks to the economy or the economic structure of a region governments commonly used both monetary and fiscal policies to reduce periods of prolonged stagnation 