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Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018

Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...

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On the efficiency of job search with social networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - 2002

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …-rating component. -- short-time work ; unemployment ; employment …

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The roots of low European employment : family culture?

Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...

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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Germany : a dynamic panel approach using regional data

Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - 2002

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...

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The heterogeneous impact of short-time work: from saved jobs to windfall effects

Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2021

Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from work to care for a family member with a serious health condition, with reduced financial risk and increased job continuity. In 2004, California was the first state in the nation to implement a paid family leave program allowing workers to...

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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

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Design and effectiveness of start-up subsidies: evidence from a policy reform in Germany

Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2021

While a growing body of literature finds positive impacts of Start-Up Subsidies (SUS) on labor market outcomes of participants, little is known about how the design of these programs shapes their effectiveness and hence how to improve policy. As experimental variation in program design is...

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Search, flows, job creations and destructions

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

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The detrimental effect of job protection on employment : evidence from France

Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck; Prat, Julien - 2019

the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …

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