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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410676

Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts

Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...

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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964 - 2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268

Space, search and efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the … interaction between land and labor markets, and decompose the equilibrium unemployment rate into two parts: a pure non-spatial one …

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Space, search and efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336862

Employment protection and capital-labor ratios

Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2014

labor market institutions may sometimes favor physical and human capital investments in second-best environments. …

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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

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