Objective WASP is aimed at developing realistic empirical equilibrium search models of the labour market, with heterogeneous agents and long-term self-enforcing contracts, that• Can help better understand rent sharing mechanisms in labour markets, • Allow for multiple sources of productivity dynamics, including deterministic human capital accumulation and idiosyncratic productivity shocks, • Do not rule out sorting by assumption, nor the possibility of mismatch – as in perfectly competitive Beckerian marriage models, • Can fit linked employer-employee data in all three dimensions: across workers, firms and time, • Can be used for policy evaluation.These research questions will be addressed within six different sub-projects:1. Understanding tenure effects. Human capital accumulation and productivity shocks are introduced in a search-matching framework to explain the difference between tenure and experience effects.2. Employment protection policies, wage dynamics and sorting. A search-matching model with productivity shocks is estimated on worker data and used to discuss the optimal design of employment protection policies.3. Large firms, sorting and linked employer-employee data. Firms post more than one job offer. The model permits the use of linked employer-employee data for estimation.4. Risk-aversion, savings and risk sharing. Risk-averse workers, subject to productivity shocks, are matched with risk-neutral employers. The model is used to measure the relative importance of self-insurance vis-à-vis insurance provided by the employer.5. Unemployment, wage inequality and business cycle. Allowing for aggregate productivity shocks in a search-matching model with worker heterogeneity can explain the unemployment volatility puzzle and the effect of business cycles on the wage distribution.6. Marriage, search and welfare policy. The intra-household resource allocation process is endogenised in a search model of marriage. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial sciencessociologysocial issuesunemployment Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-AG-SH1 - ERC Advanced Grant - Individuals, institutions and markets Call for proposal ERC-2010-AdG_20100407 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Coordinator FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES Address Rue saint guillaume 27 75341 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Principal investigator Jean-Marc Robin (Prof.) Administrative Contact Amélie Antoine Audo (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES France EU contribution € 1 340 494,00 Address Rue saint guillaume 27 75341 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Principal investigator Jean-Marc Robin (Prof.) Administrative Contact Amélie Antoine Audo (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health United Kingdom EU contribution € 469 026,00 Address Gower street WC1E 6BT London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Greta Borg-Carbott (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
