Unemployment benefits, job protection, and the nature of educational investment - Aix-Marseille Université Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Labour Economics Année : 2013

Unemployment benefits, job protection, and the nature of educational investment

Résumé

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.

Mots clés

Fichier non déposé

Dates et versions

hal-01499634 , version 1 (31-03-2017)

Identifiants

Citer

Bruno Decreuse, Pierre Granier. Unemployment benefits, job protection, and the nature of educational investment. Labour Economics, 2013, 23, pp.20--29. ⟨10.1016/j.labeco.2013.03.001⟩. ⟨hal-01499634⟩
41 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More