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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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Is Short-time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from A Randomised Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each...

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Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important case-worker heterogeneity: Some consider providing services to their clients and satisfying their...

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A Theory of Wages and Labour Demand with Intra-firm Bargaining and Matching Frictions

Cahuc, Pierre; Marque, François; Wasmer, Etienne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

, unemployment and capital accumulation. First, we recover the partial equilibrium over-employment phenomenon put to the fore by …

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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

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A Caseworker Like Me - Does the Similarity between unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...

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