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CEP discussion paper
Labor Supply Dynamics, Unemployment and Human Capital Investments

In the last decades, the OECD labor markets faced important labor supply changes with the arrival of women and the cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare their true employment experience, this pap...Read more...

E Wasmer

November 1998

CEP discussion paper
Can Labour Supply Explain the Rise in Unemployment and Intergroup Wage Inequality in the OECD?

This paper investigates how labour supply trends might have affected the OECD labour markets in the last decades. It is argued that changes in supply cannot be considered as homogenous: they involve more young and more a...Read more...

E Wasmer

November 1998

CEP discussion paper
Competition for Jobs in a Growing Economy and the Emergence of Dualism

We aim to explain the rising share of short-term employment in Europe using a matching model with growth. We find that a slow-down in growth of labour productivity leads to the emergence of temporary (short-term) jobs th...Read more...

E Wasmer

October 1997

CEP discussion paper
Equilibrium Urban Unemployment

We introduce a spatial dimension in a search equilibrium unemployment model. By assuming that workers' search efficiency decreases with the distance to the employment centre, two urban equilibrium configurations emerge:...Read more...

E Wasmer and Y Zenou

October 1997