Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

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 …

productivity and unemployment differentials. …

policies can play an important role in shaping the trade-off. Third, nominal wages tend to be endogenously rigid also upward …

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 …

capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper …

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