In France, since the mid 1990, employment protection legislation allows employers to layoff workers in order to ?safeguard? their profits but not to improve them. Our paper shows that this aspect of the French employment protection legislation is an exception among European countries. Then, we...

We use dynamical job search matching framework to compare the effects of two policies targeted on low skilled jobs paid at a the minimum wage : reductions of employers? contributions to social security versus reductions of taxes paid by employees such as the « Prime pour l?Emploi ». Our...

This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the period 1960-2000. Empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job destroyed about 1,5 private job, sightly decreased participation to the labor market and...

In this paper, we provide a simple matching model with different search methods. We show that the individuals can choose the inefficient one. In the presence of different methods of search, unemployment benefits hikes can be used as a coordination device to improve welfare and decrease the...