Dans la plupart des modèles de recherche, Le taux d'actualisation est un facteur important conditionnant la prise de décisions telles que le choix du salaire de réserve ou l'intensité de la recherche d’emploi. Les individus ayant une forte préférence pour le présent ne cherchent pas...

The objective of this paper is to provide microeconomic evidence for “Oswald’s hypothesis”, which is whether homeownership results in negative outcomes in the labour market. In a first step, a probit model for the choice of tenure status is estimated. The estimated probability of being a...

Our aim in this paper is dedicated to study the relations of recruiting among the employee and the employer in a frame characterized by the insecurity conditions of job and large scale of unemployment. The recruiting relationship that we will study is atypical as far as the offered salary is not...

This paper aims at introducing the plurality of search methods in a job search model with endogenous intensity. Search methods are integrated through a function of information production, which influences both the offer rate and search costs. The equilibrium proprieties of the model lead to an...

This paper provides new developments in job search theory, incorporating a duality in search strategies which compose the offer rate. Two strategies are modelled. A first one, called passive strategy, consists in searching exclusively in the spatial area of the public employment agency. The...

This paper aims at estimating the impact of search strategies (effort and search channels) on unemployment duration. A two-step microeconometric application is used. First, the choice process of search strategies (number and type of search media used) is analysed. Second, competing risk models...

Examining the structure of long-term unemployment first reveals a number of effects, Le. the cohort effect, the seniority effect, the structure due to seniority effect. An empirical application is developed from data compiled by INSEE. An unemployment recurrence index is then constructed. The...

This article exploits a sub-sample of the French employment survey data of 2009 of the Insee (National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies) to deduct in the style of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) the additional stylized parameters of the model of job search, that is the reservation wage...

The objective of this article is to analyze the social cost of unemployment and estimate it for the youth unemployed graduates in Tunisia. We begin by presenting the typology of the social costs of unemployment through a review of the literature. Then, we focus on the Tunisian context and...

The Moroccan unemployment figures tell a tale of a statistical misery that hides another one's but more real and painful. First, the purpose of this essay is to highlight the fact that these figures are a product of preemptive arbitrations, in terms of definition and calculation methodology,...