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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …

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Space, search and efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the … interaction between land and labor markets, and decompose the equilibrium unemployment rate into two parts: a pure non-spatial one …

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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

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Employment protection and capital-labor ratios

Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2014

labor market institutions may sometimes favor physical and human capital investments in second-best environments. …

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Can labour supply explain the rise in unemployment and inter-group wage inequality in the OECD?

Wasmer, Etienne - 1998

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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 1998

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Can labour supply explain the rise in unemployment and inter-group wage inequality in the OECD?

Wasmer, Etienne - 1997

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Changes in the composition of labour supply implications for wages and unemployment

Wasmer, Etienne - 1997

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Labor market efficiency, wages and employment when search frictions interact with intrafirm bargaining

Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring cost and constant returns of labor, the bargaining...

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