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Conformism, social norms and the dynamics of assimilation

Olcina Vauteren, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018

We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...

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Wage insurance, part-time unemployment insurance and short-time work in the XXI century

Cahuc, Pierre - 2018

At the start of the XXI century, characterized by the rise of new forms of employment and of skills requirements, many countries need to adapt their labor market institutions to accompany technological changes and globalization. In this context, unemployment insurance is an essential tool to...

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Capabilities and skills

Heckman, James J.; Corbin, Chase O. - 2016

This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...

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Multiple activities for socially-connected criminals

Chen, Ying-Ju; Zenou, Yves; Zhou, Junjie - 2015

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Job protection, minimum wage and unemployment

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction - la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage profiles...

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Redundancy payments, incomplete labor contracts, unemployment and welfare

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999

It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model a la...

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Labor market efficiency, wages and employment when search frictions interact with intrafirm bargaining

Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent … contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring … overemployment or to under-employment compared with the first-best. On the other hand, in Stole and Zwiebel's theory of intrafirm …

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How does imperfect competition in the labor market affect unemployment policies?

Wauthy, Xavier Yves; Zenou, Yves - 2001

We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...

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Trust and the welfare state : the twin peaks curve

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2014

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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...

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