Data (GSOEP) for the 1984-2009 period. We find rigid wages of job stayers in Germany. …This paper examines the selection biases in the cyclical behaviour of real wages using the German Socio-Economic Panel …

steadily growing relative supply. From co-variation of relative skill wages and relative labour supplies of skills, we reject … detrended relative skill wages and supplies, we infer that the acceleration of relative demand for skills caused a positive … association between relative skill wages and labour supplies for males in the 1980s and the 2000s, and for females after the 1970s …

This paper investigates the cyclical behaviour of real wages in urban China using the China Health and Nutrition Survey … sector and small/medium firms, but not in big firms. We also find real wages of male, high educated or ever married workers … are flexible. Including bonuses increases the pro-cyclicality of regular wages. …

local unemployment rates, we find the reaction of wages to local unemployment varies significantly across different employee … weak bargaining power also have less flexible wages. The major wage flexibility occurred in the 1990s when the labor market …

growth of the education premiums so that the wages of males have become more dispersed after the 1970s. However, female …