In some cases (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, Spain and Sweden), there is only one previous episode available for comparison. Among countries with several previous episodes available for comparison, the response of labour input in Canada, Spain and the United States was stronger this time around. A first observation is that there is a lot of cross-country heterogeneity in how real hourly wages have reacted to the recession, with wage growth rising relative to trend in about one-half of the countries while it is stable or declining in the others.