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When Short-Time Work Works
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018
Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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Short-time work compensation schemes and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
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On the efficiency of job search with social networks
Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - 2002
of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
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Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …-rating component. -- short-time work ; unemployment ; employment …
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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?
Cahuc, Pierre - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131173
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The Roots of Low European Employment : Family Culture?
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2005
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labour supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929053
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The Roots of Low European Employment : Family Culture?
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2005
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929067
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The roots of low European employment: family culture?
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2005
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267603
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L'emploi public : un remède au chômage ?
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - In: Revue économique 53 (2002) 3, pp. 589-598
This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the period 1960-2000. Empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job destroyed about 1,5 private job, sightly decreased participation to the labor market and...
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The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labour supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124400