Pierre Cahuc

Program Coordinator and Research Fellow

Sciences Po, Paris

pierre.cahuc@sciencespo.fr

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Pierre Cahuc is professor of Economics at Sciences Po, and research fellow at CEPR. He was member of the French Economic Advisory Council to the French Prime Minister (Conseil d'Analyse Economique) from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2016.

Unemployment and macroeconomics with a special concern for labor markets are his main fields of research. His papers are published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal or Economics, the Review of Economic Studies , the International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics and other journals. He has co-authored with Stéphane Carcillo and André Zylberberg a widely used graduate textbook, Labor Economics, published by MIT Press in 2014.

Pierre Cahuc joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999. Since 2004 he has been IZA Program Director for "Labor Markets". Since 2012, he has been co-editor of the IZA Journal of Labor Economics and of IZA World of Labor since 2014.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6052

Teaching Practices and Social Capital

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Andrei Shleifer

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 189-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5445

Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Marc Sangnier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5439

The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 361-400.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5430

Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo

pubished in: Nordic Economic Policy Review 2011, 1(1),133-165.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5340

Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain

Samuel Bentolila, Pierre Cahuc, Juan J. Dolado, Thomas Le Barbanchon

published in: Economic Journal (2012), 122, 155-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4747

Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4630

Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Pierre Cahuc, Edouard Challe

published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (4), 1005-1035.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3687

Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model

Pierre Cahuc, Thomas Le Barbanchon

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 196-205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3680

Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations

Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

revised version published as 'Civil Society and the State: The Interplay Between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (1), 3 - 42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2955

Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?

Pierre Cahuc, Guy Laroque

pubished in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (2), 259–273.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2935

Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as 'Inherited Trust and Growth' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2060 - 2092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1928

Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as "Civic Virtue and Labor Market Institutions" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009, 1(1), 111-145