Roland Rathelot

University of Warwick, UK

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Author

Current position

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, UK

Research interest

Job search, discrimination, local public policies

Past positions

Deputy Director, Institut des Politiques Publiques Paris, 2012–2014; Economist, French Ministry of Labor, 2007–2010; Economist, French Institute of Statistics (INSEE), 2004–2007

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Paris School of Economics, 2010

Selected publications

  • "Mismatch unemployment and the geography of job search." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (forthcoming) (with I. Marinescu).

  • "Unemployment insurance and reservation wages: Evidence from administrative data." Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) (with T. Le Barbanchon and A. Roulet).

  • "Measuring segregation on small units: A partial identification analysis." Quantitative Economics 8:1 (2017): 39–73 (with X. D’Haultfoeuille).

  • "Do labor market policies have displacement effects? Evidence from a clustered randomized experiment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128:2 (2013): 531–580 (with B. Crépon, E. Duflo, M. Gurgand, and P. Zamora).

  • "The importance of local corporate taxes in business location decisions: Evidence from French micro data." The Economic Journal 118:527 (2008): 499–514 (with P. Sillard).