Pierre Granier

Faculty ,  Aix-Marseille Université , Faculté d'économie et de gestion (FEG)

Macro, labor and international economics
Status
Professor
Research domain(s)
Labour economics
Contact
pierre.granier[at]univ-amu.fr
+33(0)4 91 14 07 22
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AMU - AMSE
5-9 Boulevard Maurice Bourdet, CS 50498
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Abstract This paper examines the impact of labor market institutions covering the risk of unemployment on the nature of educational investment. We offer a matching model of unemployment in which individuals of a given education determine the scope (or adaptability) and intensity (or productivity) of their human capital before entering the labor market. Our model features an increasing relationship between match surplus and the return to adaptability skills. This relationship explains why matching frictions promote adaptability skills instead of productivity skills, and why unemployment benefits and job protection create the incentive for productivity skill acquisition.
Keywords Economie quantitative
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