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 …

decline in the unemployment rate can be attributed to the increase in the labor force, while the number of job seekers remains …, which lowers the markup by 3 percentage points, results in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.1 and 0.05 percentage point …

telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher …

This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …

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 …

actions taken by job boards. In contrast to Great Britain, France more frequently uses matching markers aimed at selecting …

A common finding of the optimal unemployment insurance literature is that the optimal UI replacement rate is around 50 … unemployment benefits are the only government spending activity. In this paper I show that recommendations for optimal UI levels …