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Career paths, unemployment, and the efficiency of the labor market: should youth employment be subsidized?

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  • Frédéric Gavrel

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Isabelle Lebon

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Thérèse Rebière

    (CERENE - Centre d'Etude et de Recherche en économiE et gestioN LogistiquE - ULH - Université Le Havre Normandie - NU - Normandie Université)

Abstract

This paper studies the implications of learning-by-doing on youth unemployment and market efficiency when workers benefiting from this kind of training experience search (while on the job) for a higher skill job. Firms with low-skill jobs suffer from a poaching behavior by firms with high-skill jobs, causing a shortage of low-skill jobs and excessive youth unemployment. An optimal policy, consisting of taxing the output of high-skill jobs and subsidizing the output of low-skill jobs, restores market efficiency and reduces youth unemployment.

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  • Frédéric Gavrel & Isabelle Lebon & Thérèse Rebière, 2010. "Career paths, unemployment, and the efficiency of the labor market: should youth employment be subsidized?," Post-Print halshs-00545220, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00545220
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2010.01463.x
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    1. Gavrel, Frédéric & Lebon, Isabelle & Rebière, Thérèse, 2016. "Formal education versus learning-by-doing: On the labor market efficiency of educational choices," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 545-562.
    2. Isabelle Lebon & Thérèse Rebière, 2018. "How many educated workers for your economy? European targets, optimal public spending, and labor market impact," Portuguese Economic Journal, Springer;Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, vol. 17(1), pages 1-44, March.
    3. Thérèse REBIÈRE & Frédéric GAVREL & Isabelle LEBON, 2009. "Formal Education Versus Learning-by-doing," EcoMod2009 21500078, EcoMod.
    4. Gavrel, Frédéric & Lebon, Isabelle & Rebière, Thérèse, 2012. "Minimum wage, on-the-job search and employment: On the sectoral and aggregate equilibrium effect of the mandatory minimum wage," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 691-699.
    5. Therese REBIERE & Isabelle LEBON, 2015. "How many educated workers do you wish for your economy? European targets, optimal public spending, and labor market impact," EcoMod2015 8361, EcoMod.

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