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Temporary jobs, employment protection and labor market performance

Cahuc, Pierre; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2001

Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems somewhat contradictory since the former primarily aims at limiting job destruction whereas the latter...

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Taxation of temporary jobs : good intentions with bad outcomes?

Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; … - 2016

This paper analyzes the consequences of the taxation of temporary jobs recently introduced in several European countries to induce firms to create more open-ended contracts and to increase the duration of jobs. The estimation of a job search and matching model on French data shows that the...

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Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Optimal taxation and monopsonistic labor market : does monopsony justify the minimum wage?

Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - In: Journal of public economic theory 16 (2014) 2, pp. 259-273

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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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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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Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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