THE JOINT DESIGN OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION: A FIRST PASS

By Olivier J. Blanchard, Jean Tirole. 2008

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Female labour market participation in Europe: novel evidence on trends and shaping factors (2014, background): “While the labour market effects of the interaction between security and flexibility have been extensively studied from a theoretical point of view (see, for example, Blanchard and Tirole 2008; Boeri et al., 2003), the empirical evidence is still scarce.”
Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make (2009, background): “Such problems can be considerable, particularly if severance payments are large enough (Blanchard and Tirole 2008) and/or firms face liquidity constraints.1 In this article, I examine the causal impact of the administrative procedures that restrict firings for cause.”
Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down? (2011, background): “Most recent research about optimal unemployment insurance focused on the optimal level of unemployment benefits, their time profile during the unemployment spell, the impact of sanctions, the consequences of monitoring (Fredriksson and Holmlund, 2006) and the desirability of experience-rating (Blanc”
Segmentation (2019, background): “The political economy debate on the reduction of the employment protection gap, through the creation of a single contract, is discussed in Blanchard and Tirole (2008). After all, as motivated by several search models, the stochastic nature of the matching process leads necessarily to a desirable tri”