We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction – la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage...

It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model a la...

In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of firm-level bargaining, along the lines of Manning (1993). In this context, we provide a firm level wage equation that explicitly accounts for firm heterogeneity. This wage equation explains inter-firm wage differentials by differences in labour...

This paper analyzes optimum income taxation in a model with endogenous job destruction that gives rise to unemployment. It is shown that optimal tax schemes comprise both payroll and layoff taxes when the state provides public unemployment insurance and aims at redistributing income. The optimal...

Il existe un paradoxe français : celui d’un bonheur privé et d’un malheur public. Si les Français se disent relativement satisfaits de leur vie privée, et des solidarités familiales et de proximité, ils expriment, en revanche, une grande défiance envers le reste de la société. Ils...

This article analyses the impact of public employment creation on private sector employment and unemployement. In a macroeconomic approach, the first section focuses on the crowding out effects of public jobs creation on private jobs creation. The effect is found to be large and significant by...

This paper offers a dynamic model of the labor market with collective wage bargaining in a small open economy. The long run and short run equilibria are carefully distinguished, and the dynamics of the unemployment rate is analyzed. This model is useful to study the consequences of shocks on the...

We analyse how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction "à la" Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage...

Ce rapport analyse le système de la formation professionnelle en France et propose des pistes de réformes