This Selected Issues paper for Chile describes the postcrisis recovery experience. The recovery from the 2008–2009 … wedge-distortions related to the consumption leisure decision helped support the recovery. In Chile, the growth generated by …

This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …

methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …

-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are … posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is when we get two wages, and which wages are actually posted. For an example with K … combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on …

moderation. The paper identifies structural shifts in the relationship between wages and unemployment rates—a “wage curve⠅

In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …