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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001675874

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

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

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001510630

The tail of two countries : minimum wages and employment in France and the United States

Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N.; … - 2000

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001528554

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

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268823