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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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The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labour supply...

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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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