Etienne WASMER
- Full Professor, Sciences Po Paris
- Researcher, OFCE and Crest
- Address 1: Departement d'Economie, 28 Rue des Saint-Pères, 75007 Paris, France
- Address 2: OFCE, 69 Quai d'Orsay, 75007 Paris, France
- Email: etienne.wasmer(at)sciences-po.fr
- Blog
Short bio
- Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris.
- Head of graduate studies in economics, Sciences Po Paris.
- Research fellow, OFCE. Research associate, INSEE-Crest.
- Research fellow, CEPR (Londres), Research fellow, IZA (Bonn).
Other activity
- Co-editor, Labour Economics (Elsevier).
- Member of the "expert group" on Minimum Wage, France.
- In charge of a report on Flexicurity, Council of Economic Advisers, Prime Minister, France.
- Member of Executive Committee, CODICE (Comité pour la Diffusion de la Culture Economique, France).
Previous positions
- Canada Research Chair and Professor, UQAM
- Professor, Univ. Metz, Head of Economics Department
- Assistant Prof. & Research Fellow, ECARES, ULB, Bruxelles
- Research Fellow, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm Univ.
Education
- PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science
- MSc. Analyse et Politique Economique, DELTA
- Ecole Polytechnique, France
Research
- Job search, search theory, discrimination, human capital, urban economic theory.
- MOST RECENT WORKING PAPERS
2008 : Peter Rupert and Etienne Wasmer Housing and the Labour Market : Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment, mimeo Sc. Po and UCSB
2009 : Peter Rupert, Elena Stancanelli and Etienne Wasmer Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power, mimeo Sc. Po, OFCE and UCSB
2009 : Alain Delacroix and Etienne Wasmer Layoff Costs and Efficiency with Asymmetric Information mimeo Sc Po and UQAM
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See also the full publication page
Former PhD students
- Alexandre Janiak (assistant Prof., Univesidad de Chile since 2007)
- Nicolas Nadeau-Petrosky (assistant professor, University Carnegie-Mellon, Sept. 2009-)
- Quentin David (post-doctoral Fellowhsip, Univ. of Luxembourg starting on Sept. 2009)
Current PhD students
- Dilan Ölcer (Sciences-Po, visiting Harvard University 2009-2010)
- Nicolas Lepage-Saucier (Sciences-Po, UQAM, visiting Uppsala University 2009-2010)
- Etienne Lalé (Sciences-Po, Ecole Normale Supérieure - Ulm)