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Two-Sided Search and Temporary Employment
Paolini, Dimitri - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2000
The objective of this paper is to model explicitly the possibility to form temporary matching in a model of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985128
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Employment subsidies and substitutable skills : An equilibrium matching approach
Gabriele, CARDULLO; Bruno, VANDERLINDEN - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006
This search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984879
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Skilled and Unskilled Employment in a Spanish Business Cycle Model
Muñoz, Rafael - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999
We analyze to what extent skill heterogeneity in the labor market with different wage formation mechanisms can explain the features of the Spanish labor market. The model assumes two types of workers with differences in skills. Skilled labor sets wages in an efficiency way while unskilled labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985274
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Do workers really benefit from their social networks ?
FONTAINE, François - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers can be matched together trough …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505525
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Can the Matching Model Account for Spanish Unemployment ?
Fonseca, Raquel; Muñoz, Rafael - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999
and the Beveridge curve. We build a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium matching model, which assumes failures in the … matching between vacancies and unemployed. We calibrate the model for the Spanish economy and simulate it considering two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985001
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Matching Models Under Scrutiny : Understanding the Shimer Puzzle
Gabriele, CARDULLO - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
Two papers have recently questioned the quantitative consistency of the search and matching models. Shimer (2005) has … argued that a text-book matching model is unable to explain the cyclical variation of unemployment and vacancies in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984783
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Professor Lindbeck and Snower's Cheshire Cat Definition of Involuntary Unemployment
De Vroey, Michel - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1995
The aim of this article is to analyse critically the definition of involuntary unemployment offered by Lindbeck and Snower in their insider-outsider model. Their category of involuntary unemployment will be shown to be broader than that of unemployment. Hence, with their definitional stance, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985087
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Participation, unemployment and wage bargaining in a real business cycle model
LANGOT, François; PUCCI, Muriel - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1996
The objective of this article is to evaluate quantitative implications of the hypothesis of matching, with endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505606
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
LAUNOV, Andrey; WALDE, Klaus - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505481
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Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation Labour Market Adjustments and Macroeconomic Performance
BATYRA, Anna; SNEESSENS, Henri - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
We use a calibrated general equilibrium model with heterogeneous labor and search to evaluate the quantitative effects of various labor tax cut scenarios. The focus is on skill heterogeneity combined with downward wage rigidities at the low end of the skill ladder. Workers can take jobs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505488