EDHEC and GAINS (University of Le Mans) are jointly planning to organize in Paris an international Conference on Labor Market Outcomes: A Transatlantic Perspective with the support of ADRES and CEPREMAP, and in partnership with PSE.

The literature on labor economics has been growing in the last fifteen years. The observed heterogeneity among OECD countries puts emphasis on the employment incidence of unemployment benefits, labor taxes and so on. Recent works stress the primary role of these institutions when the economies face macroeconomic shocks. New analytical frameworks also take into account the different aspects of labor market heterogeneity (sectoral shift, human capital, age discrimination...).

The aim of this conference is to show the role played by institutions and the consequences of macroeconomic shocks in explaining labor market differences between European countries and the US. It is particularly concerned with modelling and assessing the main mechanisms at work behind these heterogeneous labor market outcomes.

• Olivier Blanchard - MIT [more]
  A new Keynesian Model of Unemployment
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• Giuseppe Bertola, University of Turin [more]
  Finance and Welfare States in Globalizing Markets
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• Pierre Cahuc -Ecole Polytechnique [more]
  Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony justify the Minimum Wage?
  (with Guy Laroque)
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• Arnaud Chéron, University of Le Mans & EDHEC [more]
  The Role of Institutions in Transatlantic Employment Differences: A Life-Cycle View
  (With Jean-Olivier Hairault and François Langot)
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• Daniel Cohen, CEPREMAP
  Employment and Fear of Unemployment a transatlantic perspective
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• Francis Kramarz - CREST [more]
  Driven Out of Employment ? The Impact of the abolition of the draft on driving schools and aspiring drivers
  (With Paul Avrillier and Laurent Hivert)
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• Lars Ljungqvist - Stockholm School of Economics[more]
  Taxes, benefits, careers, and markets
  (with Thomas Sargent)
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• Antoine Magnier, DARES
  Improving France labor market performance
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• Selma Mahfouz, DGTPE
  Labor Market Policies in France
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• Luca Nunziata - University of Padova [more]
  "Aggregate Self-Employment Patterns"
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• Edward Prescott - Arizona State University [more]
  Lifetime Aggregate Labor Supply with Endogenous Workweek Length"
  (with Richard Rogerson and Johanna Wallenius)
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• Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol  [more]
  "The Timing of Aggregate Employment Expansions:  New Facts and a New Hypothesis" (with Giuseppe Moscarini).
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• Victor Rios-Rull, University of Pennsylvania [more]
  Redistributive Shocks and Productivity Shocks (with Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis)
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• Richard Rogerson - Arizona State University[more]
  Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle  Model With Taxes
  (with Johanna Wallenius)
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• Robert Shimer - University of Chicago [more]
  "Search and Rest Unemployment"
  (with Fernando Alvarez)
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• Etienne Wasmer, OFCE [more]
  Labor Markets with Imperfect Housing Markets
  (with Peter Rupert)
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• Christian Zimmermann,  University of Connecticut [more]
  Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison (with Stéphane Pallage and Lyle Scruggs)
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• Bruno Amable, University of Paris I & CEPREMAP
  The effect of employment protection and product market regulation on labour market performance: substitution or complementarity
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• Lorenzo Corsini, University of Pisa
  Institution, Technological Change and the Wage Differential between Skilled and unskilled Workers: Theory and Evidence from Europe
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• Gregory DeWalque, National Bank of Belgium
  Sequential bargaining in a new-Keynesian model with frictional unemployment
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• Georg Duernecker, European University Institute Princeton University
  Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment
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• Monique Ebell, HU Berlin & LSE
  Product Market Regulation and Endogenous Union Formation
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• Henri Fraisse, Cornell University and Banque de France
  Labor Market Outcomes and the Opening of the Black Box of Employment Protection Legislation
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• Freddy Heylen, SHERPPA, Ghent University
  Why Europeans work (much) less? It is taxes and government spending
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• Paul Maarek, Universityof Aix-Marseille II
  Labor Market Rigidities, International Trade and the Labor Share
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• Christian Merkl, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
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• Michael Neugart, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung
  Shocks and endogenous institutions - An agent based model of labor market performance in turbulent times
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• Carsten Ochsen, University of Rostock, Germany
  Age Effects on Equilibrium Unemployment
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• Lise Patureau, THEMA
  Divergence in Labor Market Institutions and International Business Cycles
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• José Silva, Universitat Jaume I de Castellò
  Flexibility at the Margin and Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Labor Market Market Volatility in OECD Countries
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• Fabien Tripier, LEN, University of Nantes
  The long-run relationship between growth and unemployment: A Transatlantic Perspective
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• Hélène Turon, University of Bristol
  Severance Packages
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