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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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When Short-Time Work Works

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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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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Teaching practices and social capital

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011

firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus …

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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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Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment

Zylberberg, André; Cahuc, Pierre - 1999

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

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