at first-time homeownership using the French Housing Survey. We use a pseudo-panel approach that takes into account the … before first-time homeownership, and take into account unobserved heterogeneity. Our results indicate that a spell in public … housing increases the hazard to homeownership, supporting the idea that, in France, the public housing policy provides an …

In this paper, we study the optimal unemployment benefits financing scheme when the economy is subject to labor market … imperfections characterized by real wage rigidities and search frictions. The US unemployment insurance financing is such that firms … are taxed proportionately to their layoffs to finance unemployment benefits. Using DSGE methodology, we investigate how …

While many countries have implemented various incentives to promote homeownership, this paper investigates the …

This paper provides a method to single out customer-based discrimination in the housing market. We build a matching …

matching technology and the prevailing surplus sharing rule. The model can be solved for the equilibrium submission fee, desk …

characteristics that the analyst does not observe. The social optimum must therefore trade off matching on incomes and matching on … set of feasible matchings and of the socially optimal matching. Then we show how data on the covariation of the types of …

of informational friction. The key modelling device is a paper-tojournal matching function, similar to the matching …