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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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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410676

Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262498

Equilibrium employment in a model of imperfect labor markets

Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2003

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … of the labor force. Second, it rationalizes several empirical works on the definition of unemployment in labor force …

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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268

Between-Group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill : Us and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2021

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320995

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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Space, search and efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336862

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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