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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 …

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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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The roots of low European employment: family culture?

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 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

Zeiss, Christopher; Caliendo, Marco; Blien, Uwe; Hujer, … - 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

To understand which firms take-up short-time work and which workers they enroll in this program, we provide a model which shows 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 saving...

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The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change

Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared - 2017

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do … institutions. When new technologies emerge, uncertainty results from a lack of understanding how the technology will fit with … prevailing ideologies and institutions. This uncertainty discourages investment in institutions and the cultural capital …

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A Theory of Conservative Revivals

Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner - 2018

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic … productivity, cultural beliefs and institutions. In our model, production shocks that benefit one sector of the economy may induce …

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat …

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