The chapter discusses the role played by labor market institutions in shaping the dynamics
of wages, employment, and unemployment across European countries and the United …

This book focuses on the modeling of the transitions in and out of unemployment, given the
stochastic processes that break up jobs and lead to the formation of new jobs, and on the …

The substantially revised fourth edition of a widely used text, offering both an introduction to
recursive methods and advanced material, mixing tools and sample applications. Recursive …

France and Spain have similar labour market institutions and their unemployment rates were
both around 8% just before the Great Recession but subsequently that rate has increased to …

The simultaneous use of strong employment protection and temporary jobs observed in
many European countries seems contradictory since the former aims at limiting job …

This article provides an overview of empirical and theoretical research on dual labor
markets. It revisits the labor-market effects of dual employment protection legislation as well …

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing
costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data …

Transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition
from temporary into regular work. This paper investigates whether temporary work increases …

This article provides a simple model that explains the choice between permanent and
temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment …

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of
aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run …