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 …

acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities … trap if unemployment lowers household wealth below the cost of skills acquisition. …

relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model … calibrated to the U.S. shows that market incompleteness affects individual behavior and aggregate conditions: it reduces wages …

Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries … felt in all advanced economies. Reforms aimed at increasing productivity in services and reducing gaps in employment … protection and benefits between regular and nonregular workers could help put Japan's wages on an upward trajectory in the medium …