Discussion Papers and Work in Progress

Working Time Reduction and Employment in a Finite World”, with Jean-François Fagnart and Marc Germain. IZA working Paper 13880. NEW VERSION: CESifo Working paper 9351, 2021

“Switching From An Inclining To A Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good For Work Incentives?”, LIDAM/IRES working paper 2020-04, Université catholique de Louvain. With Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe, and Leda Inga?
Also IZA Discussion Paper No. 13002 and  CESifo Working Paper No. 8136

Scrapping the entitlement to unemployment benefits for young labor market entrants : An effective way to get them to work ?”, Working Paper N° 379, National Bank of Belgium, December 2019. With Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe and Leda Inga.

“Is there always a trade-off between insurance and incentives? The case of unemployment with subsistence constraints”. With Juliana Mesén Vargas. IRES discussion paper 2017-14, Université catholique de Louvain. IZA DP No. 11034. Revised version : CESifo Working Paper No. 7044
Featured paper by the CESifo Newsletter issue 2018/05.

“Why do place-based policies have limited effects on unemployment rates? A tale with new and more traditional explanations”. Mimeo, 2017. With Vanessa Lutgen.

Workforce location and equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions", CESifo Working paper No. 5506. With Etienne Lehmann and Paola Montero Ledezma.

“Inefficient equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions”, IRES Discussion Paper 2013-33 and IZA Discussion Paper No. 7828. With Etienne Lehmann and Paola Montero Ledezma. 

“Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet”. IRES discussion paper 2013-24. With Vanessa Lutgen. 

“Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity”.  CESifo Working Paper No. 4348 and IRES Discussion Paper 2013-18.  With E. Lehmann, C. Lucifora and S. Moriconi.

“Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis”.  IRES discussion paper 2013-6 & IZA discussion paper 7266. With Bart Cockx and Corinna Ghirelli.

“Signing distortions in optimal tax and other adverse selection problems with random participation. IRES discussion paper 2012-3 and CESifo Working paper 3766. With Etienne Lehmann and Laurence Jacquet. 

“Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job-search in a non-stationary model”, IRES discussion paper 2011-42. With Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe and Andrey Launov.

“Optimal redistributive taxation with both labor supply and labor demand responses”, IZA discussion paper 5642, April 2011.  With Etienne Lehmann and Laurence Jacquet. 

“Optimal redistributive taxation with both extensive and intensive responses”, IZA Discussion paper 4837, March 2010, IRES discussion paper 2010-33. With Etienne Lehmann and Laurence Jacquet. 

“A simple theory of optimal redistributive taxation with equilibrium unemployment”, IZA Discussion paper 4832, March 2010, IRES discussion paper 2010-08. With Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann and Alexis Parmentier. 

"Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment", IZA Discussion paper 3804 and ECON-IRES discussion paper 2008-36. With Etienne Lehmann and Alexis Parmentier. Revised version

"Equilibrium evaluation of active labor market programs enhancing matching effectiveness", IZA discussion paper 1526, March 2005  and ECON-IRES discussion paper 2005 – 07, U.C.L. 

"Unemployment benefit profile, monitoring  and active labor market policies" Document de travail n°127 de la Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale, Université catholique de Louvain, 2003. (download)
Revised version 2006 

“Unemployment insurance and training in an equilibrium matching model  with heterogeneous agents”, Discussion Paper de l'IRES n°2003-01 and  Document de travail du Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) n° 2003-01, INSEE, Paris.(download)
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"Optimal unemployment benefits and non-linear income taxation in a matching model with wage bargaining", Cahier de la Maison des Sciences Economiques 2002.01. With Etienne Lehmann. (download)

"The net effect of unemployment benefits, sanctions and training on  regular employment ", 2001,  revised version of IRES Discussion Paper 2000-20 (download). 

"Revenu minimum sous conditions de ressources ou revenu inconditionnel?", 2000, Chaire Hoover d'Ethique Economique et Sociale, Université Catholique de Louvain, Discussion Paper DOCH 68.

"Sex- and duration-specific unemployment outflows and labor market policies", 1995, IRES Discussion Paper 9528.  With E. Dor et M. Lopez-Novella. 

"Theoretical foundations of asymmetries in the wage employment relationship", 1993, IRES Discussion Paper  9313. With Ph. De Villé. 

"Le chômage et sa durée en Belgique : une approche en termes de flux", Bulletin de l'IRES n° 159, février 1992.