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Life Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment

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  • Chéron, Arnaud
  • Hairault, Jean-Olivier
  • Langot, François

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This paper extends the job creation-job destruction approach to the labor market to take into account a deterministic finite horizon. As hirings and separations depend on the time over which to recoup investment costs, the life-cycle setting implies age-differentiated labor market flows. Whereas the search effort of unemployed workers presents an age-decreasing profile, the age-dynamics of the separation rate can be either decreasing or increasing. Worker heterogeneity in the context of the undirected search implies an intergenerational externality, which is not eliminated by the Hosios condition. We show that age-specific policies are necessary to reach the first best allocation.

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  • Chéron, Arnaud & Hairault, Jean-Olivier & Langot, François, 2011. "Life Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 1103, CEPREMAP.
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    Keywords

    search; matching; retirement; life cycle;

    JEL classification:

    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions

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