This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers can be matched together through social networks and through more efficient, but also more costly, methods. In this framework, decentralized decisions to utilize social networks in the job search process can be...

This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...

Nous proposons ici une réflexion prospective sur l’efficacité du Contrat Unique d’Insertion (CUI) lorsque sont pris en compte les effets sur l’équilibre du marché du travail. La majeure partie des évaluations existant pour d’autres contrats aidés omettent cet aspect alors qu’il...