François Fontaine

François Fontaine
Maison des Sciences Economiques
106 - 112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital
75013 Paris
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/francoisfontn/
Positions and Education
Sept. 2014
Professor – Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1
2010 - 2014
Professor – University of Lorraine
Sept. 2008 - March 2009
Invited researcher, Aarhus University (Denmark)
2006 – 2010
Maître de conférences, University of Strasbourg
Affiliations
Primary affiliation
CES – UMR CNRS
Secondary affiliation
CREST (GENES)
Research fellow
IZA (Bonn) and LMDG/CAP (Aarhus University)
Responsabilities
Sept. 2012 – sept. 2014
Director of the ADRES
Since sept. 2012
Phd supervisor (Wafa Toubi)
Sept. 2011 – june 2014
Director master program (1 and 2) « Enseignement et Formation en SES »
May 2012 and June 2013
Co-organiser of the first and second Paris Search and Matching Workshops
2011, 2012
President and member of different recruiting committees
2009 – 2010
Co-organiser of the Cournot seminar (University of Strasbourg)
Since 2009
Member of the BETA’s scientific committee
2008 – 2010
Member of the board of the Institut du Travail de Strasbourg
Prize and Distinction
Oct. 2014
Institut Universitaire de France (junior member)
2009
Prime d’excellence scientifique
2005
Accessit of the French Economic Association Phd prize
Publications (peer reviewed)
In English
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"Tenure, Human Capital and Wages: A Tractable Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dynamics",
2014, American Economic Review, with Jesper Bagger, Fabien Postel-Vinay and Jean-Marc Robin.
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"On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks.", 2009, with Pierre Cahuc, Journal of Public
Economic Theory.
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"Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently? The role of social networks.", 2008, Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control.
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"Do Workers Really Benefit from their Social Networks", 2008, Louvain Economic Research
(Recherches Economiques de Louvain).
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"A Simple Matching Model with Social Networks", 2007, Economics Letters, 94 (3).
In French
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"Etudier le non recours à l'assurance chômage", 2010, with Sylvie Blasco, Revue Economique
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"Les réseaux de relations: quelles perspectives pour l'Economie du marché du travail?", 2006, La
Revue Française d'Economie, 21 (1).
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"Construire et estimer un modèle de recherche avec réseaux de relations", 2006, Revue Economique,
57 (3).
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"L'indemnisation chômage: au-delà d'une conception désincitative", with Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc,
Bruno Decreuse and Solenne Tanguy, 2006, Revue d’Economie Politique, 116 (3).
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"Inégalités sociales et inégalités salariales. Le rôle des réseaux de relations", 2005, Revue
Economique, 56 (3).
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"Epargne de précaution, réseaux sociaux et assurance chômage publique", with Yann Algan, Pierre
Cahuc, Bruno Decreuse and Solenne Tanguy, 2004, Revue Française d’Economie, 19 (1).
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"Le rôle des allocations chômage en présence de différentes méthodes de recherche d’emploi", with
Pierre Cahuc, 2004, Revue Economique, 55 (3).
Work in progress
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Unemployement Duration and the Takeup of the Unemployment Insurance, with Sylvie Blasco
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Who Benefits from the Unemployment Insurance?, with Rune Vejlin
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Labor Market Frictions, Reallocation and Growth, with Jesper Bagger et Ija Trapeznikova
Other publications
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"L’accompagnement des demandeurs d’emploi, en finir avec le retard français", with Franck
Malherbet, 2013, Presse de Sciences Po. This book is based on a report we wrote for the Chaire
Sécurisation des Parcours Professionnels (2013).
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"L’assurance chômage : une institution au cœur du marché du travail", Problèmes Economiques,
February 2013.
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"Les effets macroéconomiques du contrat unique d’insertion", 2012, LIEPP Policy Brief.
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"Les évolutions de l'économie du travail", 2011, Cahiers Français n° 163.
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"Les conséquences macroéconomiques de la protection sociale : l'assurance chômage et la protection
de l'emploi", 2004, report for the MIRE-DREES with Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Bruno Decreuse,
Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet and Solenne Tanguy.
Referee reports
Annals of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, Economic Bulletin, Econometrica,
Economica, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, European Economics
review, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of
Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public
Economic Theory, Journal of Regional Sciences, Labor Economics, Louvain Economic Research
(Recherches Economiques de Louvain), Oxford Economic Papers, Regional Science and Urban Economics,
Revue Economique, Revue d’Economie Politique, Scandinavian Journal of Economics