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This special issue of Louvain Economic Review is devoted to the ‘New Economy’.Indeed, a few months after the rapid decline in the stock market for new technologies in most places in the world, it was time to try to draw a balanced synthesis of the economic implications of the so-called New...
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This paper presents a simple model of imperfect labor markets with endogenous labor market participation and home production. Labor market imperfections take the form of an irreversible entry cost incurred by workers which drives a wedge between the entry into the labor market and exit from the...
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A model is developed that allows for interaction between the labor market and the housing market. A job location has an associated commuting time that may affect the job acceptance decision. Obstacles to mobility, such as regulations in the housing market will affect the reservation strategy of...
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This paper shows that goods-market frictions drastically change the dynamics of the labor market, bridging the gap with the data both in terms of persistence and volatility. In a DSGE model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - we find that credit- and goods-market...
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The renewal of interest in macroeconomic theories of search frictions in the goods market requires a deeper understanding of the cyclical properties of the intensive margins in this market. We review the theoretical mechanisms that promote either procyclical or countercyclical movements in time...
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Ce rapport montre que, sur les dernières décennies, la flexibilité de l’emploi en France a augmenté de façon importante, avec une accélération récente. Dans le même temps, la sécurisation des parcours des salariés n’a pas progressé car la formation professionnelle reste...
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Les prix de l’immobilier ont fortement progressé en France, entre 1998 et 2007, puis entre 2009 et 2012. La première phase d’augmentation est en partie liée à des facteurs communs à la zone euro (assouplissement des conditions de financement), en partie aussi à des facteurs...
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Although the single employment contract is not popular among both representatives of workers and company leaders, the proposal for a single labor contract, created with the goal of reducing dualism, has paradoxically remained at the forefront of debates on the need for reform of the labor...
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Bien que peu prisé des syndicats de salariés et des représentants patronaux, le contrat unique reste paradoxalement au coeur du débat public. Si le contrat unique semble à première vue être une réponse séduisante pour réduire le dualisme, il ne règle pas pour autant les problèmes...
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Cet article souhaite contribuer à une théorie du marché du logement locatif où les frictions de recherche sont rendues endogènes par une fonction d’appariement entre propriétaires et locataires potentiels. Le loyer est déterminé par une négociation à la Nash entre propriétaires et...
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