This paper provides a method to single out customer-based discrimination in the housing market. We build a matching model with ethnic externalities where landlords differ in the number of housing units they own within the same building. Multiple-dwelling landlords discriminate more often than...

Controlling for country fixed effects, there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between the degree of housing market regulation (HMR) and the strictness of employment protection legislation (EPL) in OECD countries. We provide a model in which HMR increases foreclosure costs...

[eng] The Geography of Unemployment of First and Second-generation Africans in France:. 1) Customer Discrimination in Face-to-face Jobs.. . It is well-known that the unemployment rate differential between people of foreign and French origins has increased over the past decades. This statement...

[eng] The Geography of Unemployment of First and Second-generation Africans in France:. 2) Why such a Low Residential Mobility ? . . We use the French Housing Survey and analyze the residential mobility of people of African origins. We show that African people are overrepresented in large cities...

This paper presents a continuous time overlapping-generation (OLG) model which generalizes the Blanchard-Buiter-Weil model and clarifies the relationships between dynastic altruism, the length of planning horizons, and dynamic inefficiency. Our main innovation relies on the introduction of...

This paper analyses the relationships between education, growth and employment in a search model where education, employment and growth are endogenous. A vintage human capital model is developped, in which individuals lose skills in relative terms as new better skilled generations enter the...

We construct a matching model of both skilled and unskilled unemployment, in which heterogeneous agents have to choose whether to become skilled or not, and how much education (a duration) to acquire. The decentralized economy may exhibit multiple equilibria, of which those exhibiting the...