This paper considers a particular modification of preferences in a dynamic general equilibrium model with labor-market search that implies, despite the efficient risk-sharing, unemployed workers are worse off. We show that this specific assumption allows to account for the acyclicity of the real...

This paper studies the cyclical labor market properties of a model wich aims to account for the Phillips and Beveridge curves. Monopolistic competition and sticky prices on the goods market are introduced in a labor market search model disturbed by both technological and money supply shocks. We...

Phelps [Phelps, E. (1994): "Low-wage employment subsidies versus the welfare state", American Economic Review 84, 54-58.] presented the case for a low-wage subsidy policy. Since the mid-1990s, France has experimented with this strategy. This paper evaluates the effect of this policy on...

extending the theory of job creation and job destruction to account for a finite working life-time. We first argue that the potential employment gains related to employment protection is large for older workers, but higher firing taxes for these workers increase job destruction rates of younger...

We analyse the optimal subsidy scheme of continuous vocational training in general human capital, considering a frictional labor market with general human capital depreciation during unemployment spell. When matched with a worker, a firm does not ex ante observe whether the worker has up-to-date...

In this paper, we argue that ¯ring decisions of ¯rms can help ex- plain the shape of the wage distribution. To emphasize this result, we consider a matching model with both idiosyncratic productivity shocks that hit jobs and heterogeneity of workers according to ex ante unob- servable...

Searching for partners involves informational persistence that reduces future traders' matching probability. In this paper, traders who are no longer available but who left tracks on the market are called phantoms. We examine a discrete-time matching market in which phantoms are a by-product of...