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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001675874
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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
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Labour market reallocation effects of COVID-19 policies in Spain : a tale of two recessions
Díaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan J.; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023
. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250592
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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/10001605242
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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
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803713
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001510628
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336862
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387699
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412475