Pierre Cahuc

Sciences Po, France, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Topic spokesperson, Subject Editor, Editor-in-Chief

Expertise

Wage setting, Short-time work, Minimum wage, Taxation, Trade unions, Macro-labor

Country

France

Languages

French - Native speaker, English - Native speaker

Media experience

Print, Digital, Television, Radio

Email

pierre.cahuc@gmail.com

Phone

33 678599896

Current position

Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, France

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Member of Conseil d’Analyse Economique (Adv. council of the PM, 2006–2010; 2012–present); Member of the Commission Economique de la Nation (Adv. council of the Minister of Economics and Finance, 2005–2009)

Past positions

Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique, France (2007–2018); Professor of Economics, ENSAE, France (2011–2018)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University Paris 1, 1989

Selected publications

  • “Inherited trust and growth.” American Economic Review 100 (2010): 2060–2092 (with Y. Algan).

  • “Regulation and distrust.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 125:3 (2010): 1015–1049 (with P. Aghion, Y. Algan, and A. Shleifer).

  • “A theory of wages and labor demand with intrafirm bargaining and matching frictions.” International Economic Review 48:3 (2008): 943–972 (with F. Marque and E. Wasmer).

  • “Wage bargaining with on-the-job search: A structural econometric model.” Econometrica 74:2 (2006): 323–364 (with F. Postel-Vinay and J.-M. Robin).

  • Labor Economics. MIT Press, 2004 (with A. Zylberberg). Also published in Chinese by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press, 2007.