Le manque d'experience professionnelle est la raison generalement evoquee pour expliquer le chomage des jeunes. Les etudiants ayant commence a travailler avant la fin de leurs etudes sont-ils pour autant avantages? Cette premiere activite est-elle vue comme une acquisition d'experience...

In order to increase skilled labour, governments manipulate the quantity and the quality of students. This paper investigates both dynamical and steady state responses of such a shock in a model of matching frictions with both skilled and unskilled agents. A less selective educationpolicy leads...

Nous presentons un modele structurel non-stationnaire de recherche d'emploi permettant d'integrer l'anticipation de risques futurs de chomage. Au cours de l'episode actuel de chomage, les agents envisagent que l'emploi qu'ils pourraient trouver n'est pas definitif mais pourrait deboucher sur de...

Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...

This paper attempts to explain disparities among the unemployment experiences of different OECD countries in terms of the `fragility' of the short-run unemployment equilibrium (the impact of labour market shocks on the short-run unemployment rate) and the lag structure of the employment...

We recalibrate den Haan, Haefke, and Ramey's matching model to incorporate our preferred specification of 'turbulence' as causing distinct dynamics of human capital after voluntary and involuntary job losses. Under our calibration, with high unemployment benefits, an increase in turbulence...

Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This Paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...

We develop an urban-search model in which firms post wages. When all workers are identical, the Diamond paradox holds, i.e. there is a unique wage in equilibrium even in the presence of search and spatial frictions. This wage is affected by spatial and labour costs. When workers differ according...

We consider a frictional labor market in which firms want to insure their senior employees against income fluctuations and, at the same time, want to recruit new employees to fill their vacant positions. Firms can commit to a wage schedule, i.e. a schedule that specifies the wage paid by the...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for adjusting performance standards for workforce programs offered by local workforce areas (LWAs). By performance standards adjustment, we mean a model that uses a statistical approach to attempt to better measure the relative performance...