Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems somewhat contradictory since the former primarily aims at limiting job destruction whereas the latter...

[fre] Progrès technique, emploi et exclusion du marché du travail. . Cet article étudie l'impact de la croissance sur l'emploi, le chômage et l'exclusion du marché du travail dans un cadre où les chômeurs subissent des pertes de capital humain relativement aux travailleurs employés, de...

Most applications of Nash bargaining over wages ignore between-employer competition for labor services and attribute all of the workers' rent to their bargaining power. In this paper, we write and estimate an equilibrium model with strategic wage bargaining and on-the-job search and use it to...

Les auteurs formalisent un modèle d'équilibre à deux composants : les négociations salariales et la recherche d'emploi afin d'apporter un éclairage nouveau sur la détermination des salaires en France. Trois déterminants essentiels sont pris en compte : productivité, compétition entre...

Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems somewhat contradictory since the former primarily aims at limiting job destruction whereas the latter...

In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring cost and constant returns of labor, the bargaining...

In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring cost and constant returns of labour, the bargaining...

Firms are the field of several strategic interactions that standard neo-classical analysis often ignores. Such strategic considerations concern relations between capital owner and labour, relations between marginal employees and incumbents and more generally all relations between different...

This paper presents a simple endogenous growth model with human capital accumulation in which competition in the educational system can lead to over-education, with rapid output growth and a simultaneous decline in welfare along a balance growth path in some circumstances. This illustrates the...