Using 1979-2011 Current Population Survey data for the United States and 1975-2011 New Earnings Survey data for Great Britain, we study wage behavior in both countries, with particular attention to the Great Recession. Real wages are procyclical in both countries, but the procyclicality of real...

Our new empirical evidence suggests that wages are substantially flexible in South Korea. In particular, our longitudinal evidence on the wage curve follows the minus-point-one rule, set up by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) and is consistent with evidence from other countries.