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...

This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity trade-off. We consider an equilibrium search model with wage posting and specific human capital investment where unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity...

This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...

Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...

This paper develops an on-the-job search model with wage posting where unemployment benefits are proportional to past wages. We emphasize that this contributes to increasing the reservation wages of unemployed workers and introduces a feedback effect of the distribution of wages on the...

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...

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on the age-dynamics of the labor market. We distinguish short-term from long-term contracts with high firing costs into a life cycle model of the labor market with endogenous job creations and job destructions. We show that high...