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Title: The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits

Author(s): Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Thomas Le Barbanchon

Publication Date: December 2017

Keyword(s): Hiring credit, labor demand and search and matching model

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had significant positive employment effects and no effects on wages. Relying on the quasi-experimental variation in labor cost triggered by the hiring credit, we estimate a structural search and matching model. Simulations of counterfactual policies show that the effectiveness of the hiring credit relied to a large extent on three features: it was non-anticipated, temporary and targeted at jobs with rigid wages. We estimate that the cost per job created by permanent hiring credits, either countercyclical or time-invariant, in an environment with flexible wages would have been much higher.

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Cahuc, P, Carcillo, S and Le Barbanchon, T. 2017. 'The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12537