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 …

Euro-area real wages have decelerated sharply in the last 20 years, but this has not yet translated into visibly lower … output and employment. …

the global financial crisis. Our findings suggest that: (i) employment responsiveness has been historically low but rising … historical patterns once we control for the size of the output shock; and (iii) the comparatively lower employment response vis …-à-vis other countries can in part be explained by the quick implementation of an employment subsidy program, a more flexible wage …

institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and …

The paper looks at the dynamics of employment in South Africa and examines the factors that contributed to the job … productivity growth in most sectors, played an important role in suppressing employment creation. The paper also finds that while …