I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. My main research fields are applied and theoretical labor economics. I also have interests in labor market policy, macroeconomic dynamics, and applied structural microeconometrics.

On this page you will find a collection of downloadable working papers and their abstracts, various versions of my vita with a list of my publications, some press coverage of my work, plus a few links to interesting web sites.

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• Professor of Economics, University of Bristol.

• Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Paris.

• CEPR Research Fellow.

• IZA Research Fellow.

• Member of CMPO.

• Member of CSE.

• Founding member of SaM.

• Associate editor, Journal of Labor Economics.

• Associate editor, Journal of the European Economic Association.

• Associate editor, Quantitative Economics.

• Associate editor, Labour Economics.

• Associate editor, Journal of Macroeconomics.

• Moscarini, G. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2011, “The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment”. Forthcoming American Economic Review.

• Moscarini, G. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2010, “Unemployment and Small Cap Returns: The Nexus”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 100, 333-7.

• Postel-Vinay, F. and H. Turon, 2010, “On-the-job Search, Productivity Shocks, and the Individual Earnings Process", International Economic Review, 51(3), 599-629.

• Clark, A. E. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2009, “Job Security and Job Protection”, Oxford Economic Papers, 61, 207-39.

• Moscarini, G. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2008, “The Timing of Labor Market Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis”, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 23, 1-51.

• Postel-Vinay, F. and H. Turon, 2007, “The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter", Economic Journal, 117, 1460-503.

• Jolivet, G., F. Postel-Vinay and J.-M. Robin, 2006, “The Empirical Content of the Job Search Model: Labor Mobility and Wage Dispersion in Europe and the U.S.”, European Economic Review, 50(4), 877-907.

• Cahuc, P., F. Postel-Vinay and J.-M. Robin, 2006, “Wage Bargaining with On-the-job Search: Theory and Evidence”, Econometrica, 74(2), 323-64.

• Cahuc, P. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2005, “Social Status and the Overworked Consumer”, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 78, 143-61.

• Clark, A. E., F. Etilé, F. Postel-Vinay, C. Senik and K. Van der Straeten, 2005, “Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries”, Economic Journal, 115, C118-32.

• Postel-Vinay, F. et A. Saint-Martin, 2005, “Comment les Salariés Perçoivent-ils la Protection de l'Emploi ?”, Economie et Statistique, 372, 41-59.

• Maurin, E. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2005, “The European Job Security Gap”, Work and Occupations, 32(2), 229-52.

• Domingues Dos Santos, M. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2004, “The Impact of Temporary Migration on Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Development”. Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, 47(1), 1-12.

• Postel-Vinay, F. and J.-M. Robin, 2004, “To Match Or Not To Match? Optimal Wage Policy with Endogenous Worker Search Intensity”, Review of Economic Dynamics, 7(2), 297-331.

• Domingues Dos Santos, M. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2003, “Migration as a Source of Growth: The Perspective of a Developing Country”, Journal of Population Economics, 16(1), 161-75.

• Postel-Vinay, F. and J.-M. Robin, 2002, “Equilibrium Wage Dispersion with Worker and Employer Heterogeneity”, Econometrica, 70(6), 2295-350.

• Postel-Vinay, F. and J.-M. Robin, 2002, “The Distribution of Earnings in an Equilibrium Search Model with State-Dependent Offers and Counter-Offers”, International Economic Review 43(4), 989-1016.

• Postel-Vinay, F., 2002, “The Dynamics of Technological Unemployment”, International Economic Review, 43(3), 737-60.

• Cahuc, P. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2002, “Temporary Jobs, Employment Protection and Labor Market Performance”, Labour Economics, 9(1), 63-91.

• Cahuc, P. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2000, “On Some Undesirable Consequences of Education and Growth”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 156(3), 445-54.

• Cahuc, P., P. Granier et F. Postel-Vinay, 1999, “Progrès Technique, Emploi et Exclusion du Marché du Travail”, Revue Economique, 50(3), 405-15.

• Postel-Vinay, F., 1998, “Transitional Dynamics of the Search Model with Endogenous Growth”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 22, 1091-115.

• Cerisier, F. and F. Postel-Vinay, 1998, “Endogenous Growth and the Labor Market”, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 49/50, 105-26.

• Postel-Vinay, F. et A. Zylberberg, 1997, “Insiders et Persistance : un Réexamen en Concurrence Monopolistique”, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 46, 161-76.

• Postel-Vinay, F. and J.-M. Robin, 2006, “Microeconometric Search-Matching Models and Matched Employer-Employee Data”, in R. Blundell, W. Newey and T. Persson, editors, Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress, Volume 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Jolivet, G., F. Postel-Vinay and J.-M. Robin, 2006, “The Empirical Content of the Job Search Model: Labor Mobility and Wage Dispersion in Europe and the U.S.”, in H. Bunzel, B. J. Christensen, G. R. Neumann and J.-M. Robin, editors, Structural Models of Wage and Employment Dynamics, Elsevier Series on Contributions to Economic Analysis, Amsterdam: North-Holland.

• Cerisier, F. and F. Postel-Vinay, 2000, “Endogenous Growth and the Labor Market”, in D. Encaoua, B. H. Hall, F. Laisney and J. Mairesse, editors, The Economics and Econometrics of Innovation, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Reprinted from Annales d’Economie et de Statistique.)

• Bossard, A. et F. Postel-Vinay, 1997, “La Réduction de la Durée du Travail dans une Maquette de Modèle Macroéconomique”, in P. Cahuc et P. Granier, éditeurs, La Réduction du Temps de Travail, une Solution pour l'Emploi ?, Paris : Economica.

• Postel-Vinay, F. and H. Turon, 2006, “Britain's Public-Private Pay Gap”, Research in Public Policy, 2, 14-15.

• Laurent, T. et F. Postel-Vinay, 2003, “Inventer une Véritable « Flexicurité » pour le Travail”, in M. Didier, éditeur, Des Idées pour la Croissance, Paris : Economica.

• Postel-Vinay, F., 2003, “Evolution du Risque de Perte d’Emploi : Changements Structurels ou Changements Institutionnels ?” (comment on “Insécurité de l’Emploi : Le Rôle Protecteur de l’Ancienneté a-t-il Baissé en France” by Luc Behaghel), Economie et Statistique, 366, 24-9.

My work sometimes gets talked about in the press. The articles listed below reflect the views of those who wrote them, which do not always coincide with mine.

• Le Monde, on employment protection (in French), May 2006.

• The Daily Mail, on public sector pay, June 2006.

• The BBC online, on French labor market regulation, April 2007.

• Málaga Hoy, on small and large employers over the business cycle, (in Spanish, article at the bottom of the page), March 2008.

• TIME magazine, on small and large employers over the business cycle, February 2009.

My work sometimes also gets used by people from the Real World:

• Advisor Perspective on the Small Cap premium, July 2010.

The Department of Economics at Bristol hosts the Centre for Structural Econometrics, which offers excellent resources for people interested in theory-based applied economic analysis. It also has a very exciting seminar program.

If you plan to visit Bristol in the near future, you may be interested in local airport info (including scheduled flight lists/maps and ground transportation info), UK railway info and online booking, some information about my favorite pub, what's on in Bristol this week, or the weather in Bristol.

Finally, here are links to some of my coauthors' web sites (in alphabetical order)...

• Jim Albrecht (Georgetown).

• Jesper Bagger (Royal Holloway).

• Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique).

• Andrew Clark (PSE).

• Manon Domingues Dos Santos (CREST).

• François Fontaine (Nancy).

• Pieter Gautier (VU Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute).

• Grégory Jolivet (Bristol).

• Bruno Jullien (IDEI, Toulouse I).

• Sébastien Mitraille (Toulouse Business School).

• Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale).

• Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po and UCL).

• Hélène Turon (Bristol).

• Susan Vroman (Georgetown).

• Ronald Wolthoff (Toronto).

• André Zylberberg (Paris I).