[fre] Faut-il moduler les cotisations patronales à l'assurance chômage ?. . L'objet de cet article est d'étudier les conséquences d'une modulation des cotisations patronales à l'assurance chômage sur un marché du travail de type « européen », avec des coûts de licenciement, des...

[eng] Centralized versus decentralized wage setting: inflation and unemployment implications. . This paper analyzes unemployment and inflation rates determination in a repeated game where prices are fixed by firms, nominal wages by centralized or decentralized unions(s), and money balance by...

[eng] Worksharing : from legal constraint to bargaining. . . The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of various worksharing policies on employment. The first part is devoted to a partial equilibrium analysis. A compulsory reduction in work hours, compulsory negotiation on hours, and...

[fre] Nous comparons les conséquences de politiques de réduction des charges patronales sur les bas salaires et de politiques d'incitation au travail, du type prime pour l'emploi, dans un modèle dynamique où le chômage frictionne! et les comportements de recherche d'emploi sont...

[fre] Conflits, inefficience du capitalisme et politique économique. . Cet article analyse, dans une perspective dynamique, les conséquences sur la croissance du conflit pour le partage du revenu. Après avoir étudié la robustesse de la propriété d"inefficience du capitalisme mise en...

[eng] In this paper, it is shown that an economy with a minimum wage is not necessarily less efficient than a competitive economy if there are externalities associated with human capital accumulation. A minimum wage can increase human capital accumulation, which has positive conséquences on...

[eng] Wage bargaining with non walrasian equilibria . . This paper deals whith the determination of the real wage in a macroeconomic model with rationing. The real wage is determined by a bargaining between an union reprensenting workers and a firm. The wage employment relation is specifie in...

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In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...

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...