Etienne Lalé - Research

Working papers:

When Neighbors Stop Knocking: The Impact of Canada's 2025 Tourism Decline on U.S. Local Labor Markets

(with André Kurmann and Julien Martin)

PDF file (March 2026) | VoxEU column

Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits [R&R, Journal of Monetary Economics]

(with Andreas Hornstein, Marios Karabarbounis, André Kurmann and Lien Ta)

PDF file (January 2026) | Richmond Fed Economic Brief

Life-cycle Worker Flows and Cross-country Differences in Aggregate Employment [Conditionally accepted, Journal of Monetary Economics]

(with Jonathan Créchet and Linas Tarasonis)

PDF file (December 2025) | Online Appendix | Data

The College Premium Rollercoaster and the Rebound of Lifetime Wage Growth: A Structural Analysis

(with Raquel Fonseca, François Langot and Thepthida Sopraseuth)

PDF file (September 2025) | Online appendix

Refereed publications:

Job Ladder and Wealth Dynamics in General Equilibrium

Econometrica, forthcoming. (with Leo Kaas and Nawid Siassi)

Published version | Manuscript | Picture summary

Zero-hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market

The Economic Journal, forthcoming. (with Juan J. Dolado and Hélène Turon)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | CEPR VideoVox

Search and Multiple Jobholding

Economic Theory, Vol. 80, November 2025, Pages 891-939.

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Upjohn Institute Policy Brief

Measuring Small Business Dynamics and Employment with Private-Sector Real-time Data

Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 250(C), October 2025. (with André Kurmann and Lien Ta)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Video | Media coverage: Wall Street Journal, again and again; Politico

School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning during COVID-19

Economics of Education Review, Vol. 95(C), August 2023. (with André Kurmann)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Video | Data

The Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Policy Responses to the COVID-19 School Closures

IMF Economic Review, Vol. 71, March 2023, Pages 35-98. (with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, André Kurmann, Alexander Ludwig and Irina Popova)

Published version | Manuscript | NBER research spotlight

On the Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in Canada

Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 55(2), May 2022, Pages 1095-1134. (with Olena Kostyshyna)

Published version | Manuscript | Earlier IZA working paper related to this research

From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State

Quantitative Economics, Vol. 12(2), May 2021, Pages 547-585. (with Juan J. Dolado and Nawid Siassi)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Computer codes

The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-time Employment

Labour Economics, Vol. 67(C), December 2020. (with Daniel Borowczyk-Martins)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Data | Discussion paper that preceded this research

Labor-market Frictions, Incomplete Insurance and Severance Payments

Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 31, January 2019, Pages 411-435.

Published version | Manuscript | Computer codes

Employment Adjustment and Part-time Work: Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 11(1), January 2019, Pages 389-435. (with Daniel Borowczyk-Martins)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | AEA research highlight

Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Quantitative Economics, Vol. 9(2), July 2018, Pages 735-784.

Published version | Manuscript | Supplemental note

Loss of Skill and Labor Market Fluctuations

Labour Economics, Vol. 50(C, 'Search in macroeconomics'), March 2018, Pages 20-31.

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Link to coverage on NEP-DGE Blog

The Welfare Effects of Involuntary Part-time Work

Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 70(1), January 2018, Pages 183-205. (with Daniel Borowczyk-Martins)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Data | Link to coverage on NEP-DGE Blog

Worker Reallocation across Occupations: Confronting Data with Theory

Labour Economics, Vol. 44(C), January 2017, Pages 51-68.

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix

Better Residential than Ethnic Discrimination! Reconciling Audit and Interview Findings in the Parisian Housing Market

Urban Studies, Vol. 53(13), October 2016, Pages 2815-2833. (with Francois Bonnet, Mirna Safi and Etienne Wasmer)

Published version | Manuscript | Online appendix | Non-technical summary in HTML and PDF

Trends in Occupational Mobility in France: 1982-2009

Labour Economics, Vol. 19(3), June 2012, Pages 373-387.

Published version | Manuscript

Other refereed publications:

Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata

Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 50(2), June 2024, Pages 217-231.

Published version | Manuscript

Evolutions récentes du travail à temps partiel en France ('On the Recent Dynamics of Part-time Employment in France')

Revue Française d'Economie, Vol. XXXIII, Juillet 2018, Pages 51-102. (with Idriss Fontaine and Alexis Parmentier)

Published version | Manuscript

Book chapter:

Technology and Globalization in the Post-COVID Economy

in J. L. Denis, C. Régis and D. M. Weinstock, editors, Pandemic Societies, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. (with Sophie Osotimehin)

Publisher's website | Google books | Manuscript

Non-refereed publications:

How did Pandemic UI Benefits Affect Employment Recovery in Local Industry Markets?

Richmond Fed Economic Brief, No. 22-44, November 2022. (with Andreas Hornstein, Marios Karabarbounis and André Kurmann)

Online version | Working paper

School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning during COVID-19: When, Where and for Whom

IZA World of Labor (Commentary), April 2022. (with André Kurmann)

Online version | IZA working paper

Sectoral Policies that can Help the Economy Recover from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Perspectives/Insights, CIRANO, August 2020. (with Sophie Osotimehin)

Published version | Manuscript | Media coverage: Options politiques

Real-time Evidence on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Canadian Labour Market

Perspectives/Insights, CIRANO, April 2020.

Published version | Manuscript | Media coverage: Le Devoir, La Presse

Multiple Jobholding: Knowing the Facts to Draw Proper Policy Conclusions

Policy Brief, W.E. Upjohn Institute, June 2019.

Published version | Upjohn Institute research highlight

Better Residential than Ethnic Discrimination! Comments by Robert Ellickson and David Laitin

LIEPP Methodological Discussion Paper, Number 5, September 2015. (with Francois Bonnet, Mirna Safi and Etienne Wasmer)

Published version | Manuscript

Multiple Jobholding over the Past Two Decades

Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 138, April 2015.

Published version (also available on the BLS website) | Manuscript | Media coverage: Fortune, Daily Signal, Quartz, MarketWatch

À la recherche du locataire « idéal » : du droit aux pratiques en région parisienne

Regards croisés sur l'Economie, Vol. 9, May 2011, Pages 216-227. (with Francois Bonnet, Mirna Safi and Etienne Wasmer)

Article | Editorial page

Une mesure de la mobilité professionnelle en France

Addendum to Lemoine and Wasmer's Report on Flexicurity to the Council of Economic Advisers, May 2010, Pages 205-217.

Article | Read the full report here