L'ambition de ce travail est d'évaluer quantitativement la capacité de l'épargne de précaution à couvrir le risque de chômage dans le cadre d'une économie caractérisée par des risques idiosyncratiques sur le marché du travail. Il apparaît que l'épargne de précaution permet de...

We explore the consequences of public employment for labour market performance. Theory suggests that public employment may not only crowd out private employment, but also increase overall unemployment if, by offering attractive working conditions, it draws additional individuals into the labour...

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We document this correlation, and present a model explaining it. In the model, distrust creates public demand for regulation, while regulation in turn discourages social capital...

This paper reviews the ability of the traditional aggregate demand–aggregate supply framework to explain the unemployment fluctuations of the last three decades. A structural VAR model for the growth rates of labor productivity, inflation and unemployment is estimated on American and French...

YannAlgan, Pierre Cahuc, Bruno Decreuse, François Fontaine, Solenne Tanguy Epargne de précaution, réseaux sociaux et assurance chômage publique. Cet article analyse les conséquences des systèmes publics d'assurance chômage lorsque les ménages peuvent disposer de méthodes alternatives...

Yann Algan mène des recherches en économie expérimentale et comportementale à Sciences Po où il enseigne principalement la macroéconomie et la politique économique. Il répond ici aux questions de nonfiction.fr dans le cadre d’un dossier consacré aux nouveaux économistes français.

We argue civic virtue plays a key role in explaining the design of public insurance against unemployment risks by solving moral hazard issues which hinder the efficiency of unemployment insurance. We show, in a simple model, that economies with stronger civic virtues are more prone to provide...

L’étude de l’incidence des dispositifs d’assurance chômage sur l’offre de travail s’est limitée jusqu’ici, faute de données, au système de protection sociale au travers de l’allocation chômage. Cependant, au cours des années 90, de plus en plus de ménages ont constitué une...

This paper reconsiders the welfare benefit of unemployment insurance when individuals might self−insure through private savings but face aggregate fluctuations. We conclude that previous studies have under−estimated by half the average welfare gain from unemployment benefit by ignoring...

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...