. We show that firms were able to respond to the Great Recession with substantial real wage cuts and by recruiting more …

. We show that firms were able to respond to the Great Recession with substantial real wage cuts and by recruiting more …

. We show that UK firms were able to respond to the Great Recession with substantial real wage cuts and by recruiting more … substantially procyclical, while hours of job stayers were nearly constant. We conclude that there is little evidence of real wage …

of reporting error and cover the entire population of workers, we find a substantial degree of downward nominal wage … flexibility in Ireland in the pre-crisis period. Furthermore, we observe a significant change in wage dynamics since the crisis … began. It was only after the peak crisis period that pay freezes became a feature of the Irish wage change distribution. …

There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of … empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous attempts to empirically examine wage rigidity … have been hampered by small samples and measurement error. In this paper we examine nominal wage flexibility in Ireland …

There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of … empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous attempts to empirically examine wage rigidity … have been hampered by small samples and measurement error. In this paper we examine nominal wage flexibility in Ireland …

SILC panels to control for composition effects, we estimate the elasticities of real wage growth to unemployment increases … most of the stagnation or increase in the average wage observed in some countries from 2008 to 2011. In contrast, at a … nominal wage rigidity during the Great recession in most countries in our sample. …