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Poverty of the Aging Population: a cross-country analysis (2011). Editors Frechet, Guy, Gauvreau, Danielle and Poirier, Jean, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, December.

Business Cycle Comovement and Labor Market Institutions: An Empirical Investigation (2010). Review of International Economics, 18(5), pages 865-881.

This paper examines the empirical link between labor market institutions and international business cycle synchronization. Using a data panel of 20 OECD countries over the 1964–2003 period, we evaluate how cross‐country labor market heterogeneity …

Divergence in Labor Market Institutions and International Business Cycles (2009). Annales d’Economie et Statistique, July December, 95/96, pages 279-314.

The paper investigates the international GDP synchronization within the international real business cycle framework (Backus, Kehoe and Kydland, 1992). It sheds new light on the comovement issue by highlighting the role of cross-country divergence in …

Spanish Unemployment Persistence and Ladder Effect (2009). In M. C. Fournier and C. S. Mercier (Eds.) in Economics of Employment and Unemployment, Novapublishers.

Le travail indépendant passé 50 ans : le rôle de la richesse individuelle et des coûts de création d'entreprise (2007). Économie et Statistique, number 403-404.

Dans une économie avec contraintes de liquidité, les individus ont plus de difficultés à créer leur entreprise faute d'un financement suffisant de la part des banques. Nous étudions l'effet de telles contraintes et aussi celle des coûts de …

Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints, and Start-Up Costs (2007). Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 28(4).

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model that yields predictions that can be tested on …

Matching Efficiency and Labour Market Reform in Italy: A Macroeconometric Assessment (2007). Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 21 (1) 57–84.

A matching theory approach is used to assess the impact on the Italian labour market of the 1997 Treu Act (legge Treu), which considerably eased the regulation of temporary work and favoured its growth in Italy. We re‐parameterize the matching …

Matching efficiency and Labour market reforms across Italian Regions (2006). In F. Caroleo, and S. Destefanis (eds.) Regions, Europe and the Labour Market: recent problems and development, Physica Verlag.

Domanda e Offerta – Flussi di lavoro per genere e regione (2005). In A.Amendola, E Rustichelli (eds.) Rapporto sul mercato del lavoro nel Mezzogiorno, Parte I, “Monografie sul Mercato del lavoro e le politiche per l’impiego”, n. 12/2005 ISFOL – RP(MDL)-12/05.

Il mercato del lavoro femminile nel Mezzogiorno (2005). In F.E. Caroleo, E Rustichelli (eds.) Rapporto sul mercato del lavoro nel Mezzogiorno, Parte II, “Monografie sul Mercato del lavoro e le politiche per l’impiego”, n. 12/2005 ISFOL – RP(MDL)-12/05.