Adaptabilité et complexité: les choix éducatifs et technologiques sont-ils efficaces?

Adaptability vs complexity: on the efficiency of educational and technological choices

Bruno Decreuse and Pierre Granier

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: European labour markets have known three major changes over the past three decades : the complexification of the technological environment, the growth of general education across the workforce, and rising unemployment. Taken together, do these facts reflect the inefficiency of schooling and technological decisions ? Our answer takes place in a matching model of unemployment in which firms choose technological complexity, and workers educate to improve their adaptability. We show economic policy should focus on the labour market and the education system rather than on firms’ technological choices.

Keywords: Matching frictions; Heterogeneity; Ex-ante investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J21 J24 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08
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