We study the effects of uncertainty on time use and their macroeconomic implications. Employing data from the American Time Use Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics,[...]

We analyse monetary policy in a model where temporary shocks can permanently scar the economy’s productive capacity. Workers lose skill while unemployed and are costly to[...]

Replication package contains programs and data required to reproduce all figures of Online Appendices L and M of article "Slow Recoveries and Unemployment Traps: Monetary[...]

We estimate the link between exchange rate fluctuations and the labour input of Canadian manufacturing industries. The analysis is based on a dynamic model of labour dema[...]

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers. Worker[...]

In this paper we develop a quantitative model of entrepreneurial activity (risk-taking) and consumer bankruptcy choices and use the model to study the effects of bankrupt[...]

The author quantitatively studies the interaction between education and occupation choices and its implication for the relationship between the changes in earnings inequa[...]

The authors document the recent evolution of the self-employment rate in Canada. Between 1987 and 1998, the self-employment rate rose 3.5 percentage points from 13.8 per [...]

Si plusieurs travaux ont montré l'importance des degrés d'utilisation des facteurs dans l'analyse économique, l'influence des durées d'utilisation des facteurs dans la co[...]

À partir de données d'entreprises industrielles françaises sur la période 1989-2001, nous estimons une fonction de production « flexible », de type Translog, tenant compt[...]