Sylvie Blasco. phone: Curriculum Vitae, November 2008

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1 Sylvie Blasco phone: Curriculum Vitae, November 2008 Office address CREST, Laboratoire LMI 15 bd Gabriel Péri Malakoff France Personal Details Gender: Female Birthdate: 01/15/1982 Citizenship: French Research interests Microeconometrics, Transition and duration data Microeconomics of unemployment Non take-up, Evaluation of active labor market policy and training programs Thesis Title Supervisor The non take-up of the unemployment benefits and services provided by the national unemployment agency in France David N. Margolis Expected date of completion in Fall 2009 Overview. The purpose of my dissertation is to understand why a significant share of the unemployed workers do not register at the national unemployment agency, preventing them from receiving a support in their job search and, when entitled, the compensation. In line with the growing take-up literature, I investigate the relevance and relative importance of the following possible determinants: the monetary incentives, the imperfect information, the administrative barriers and stigma. Moreover, I focus on the link between the take-up and the job search activity. Using a quasi-natural experiment (the 2001 French unemployment reform) and structural estimation, as well as administrative and survey data, I provide new empirical evidence for France. Fellowships and awards 2008 Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission CREST Research fellowship Master Scholarship from the French government

2 Pre-doc education 2006 now Ph-D in Economics, Paris School of Economics Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France Graduated from the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE), France Specialization: Social Sciences and Quantitative Methods Member of the Training for research program (OFPR) M.A. in Economics, Paris School of Economics Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France Specialization: Economic Analysis and Policy Public Economics, Economic Theory and Microeconomics B.A. in Econometrics, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France Research Experience 09/ /2008 Guest Ph-D student at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam with the Research Training Network Microdata Methods and Practice 02/ /2008 Visiting pre-doc at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with the Research Training Network Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe 07/ /2005 Research Internship in CREST, France 07/ /2004 Research internship at the department of statistics of the Social Services Ministry (DREES) Teaching Experience Teaching assistant Econometrics, ENSAE 2nd year (Falls 2006 and 2007) Econometrics 3, Paris School of Economics M1 (Springs 2007 and 2008) Microeconomics, ENSAE 2nd year (Fall 2008) Lectures Statistics, University of Dauphine L2 (Fall 2008) Supervision Supervision of a group of 4 students in their project in Applied Statistics, ENSAE 2nd year (year 2006/2007)

3 Publication The non take-up of an unemployment insurance reform in France - A duration analysis with competing and defective risks Document de travail CREST French version submitted (in revision) Abstract. We use the French 2001 reform of the unemployment insurance system to study the behavior of the unemployed workers as regards active labor market policy (ALMP) programs. The workers who were registered at the unemployment agency at the moment of the reform could choose between staying in the former system, without ALMP components, and switching to the new one, with intensive counseling and job search assistance. This paper aims at rationalizing non participation in the new system, measuring the non take-up rate and characterizing the staying and switching populations. We estimate the non take-up rate and identify the staying population using defective duration methods. We find a small but significant non take-up rate of about 3%. Stigma, informational issues and expectation of a short unemployment spell are found to explain non participation. Keywords: non take-up; unemployment insurance; active labor market policies; duration models. JEL Classification numbers: C41; J64; J65. Works in Progress A structural model of unemployment insurance take-up with François Fontaine (Université de Strasbourg BETA-CNRS and IZA) Abstract. We propose and estimate a structural model focused on four determinants of the take-up of the unemployment insurance: the monetary gains, the imperfect information about the eligibility rules, the administrative difficulties to make a claim and the non-monetary incentives such as the effectiveness of the unemployment agency as a search method. Our model accounts for the dynamical dimension of the take-up and the endogenous link between job search and benefit claiming. It also provides simple way to model selection into participation. We estimate our structural model using the French Labor Force Survey (INSEE, ). Keywords: Unemployment Insurance Take-up, Job Search. JEL Classification numbers: J64, J65, C41. Contrats courts et insertion professionnelle with Pauline Givord (INSEE-CREST) Abstract. In this paper we investigate whether temporary contracts act as stepping-stones or lead to lasting precarious trajectories. To do so, we analyze

4 the transitions between temporary contracts, permanent jobs and non employment made by young workers during their first 10 years on the labor market. Using a calendar of activity provided by a French survey, we estimate a multispells multi-states durations model and identify the roles played respectively by observed and unobserved heterogeneity and by lagged and current state and duration dependence on the process of professional integration. Keywords: precarious contracts, professional integration, duration model. JEL Classification numbers: J63, J24, I20. Evaluation of the impact of training on individual labor market transitions with Bruno Crépon (CREST-INSEE, CEPR and IZA) and Thierry Kamionka (CNRS and CREST) Abstract. We evaluate the effect of a participation in a training program on the mobility on the labor market. We use a French survey representative of the labor force population to estimate a multi-spells multi-states transitions model. We distinguish two categories of training: job-training and training on non employment. Participation in such programs and their duration are taken as endogenous variables. We allow participation to have an impact on the labor market transitions up to 12 months after entry into the program, to study both current and past duration and state dependence. We model unobserved heterogeneity to distinguish between true and spurious dependence. Keywords: Training, Transition Models, Unobserved Heterogeneity. JEL Classification numbers: J64, C41, C10, J69. Formation continue en entreprise et promotion sociale : mythe ou réalité? submitted with Jerôme Le (INSEE-CREST) and Olivier Monso (INSEE-CREST) Presentations Meetings Seminars European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), Milan, 08/2008 European Economic Association congress (EEA), Milan, 08/2008 European Association of Labor Economists conferences (EALE), Amsterdam, 09/2008 and Oslo, 09/2007 COST conference, The Hague, 10/2007 Association Française de Sciences Economiques conference (AFSE), Paris, 09/2008 Journées de Microeconomie Appliquée, Fribourg, 05/2007 Ph-D Lunch Seminar at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, 11/2008 Vrije Universiteit Internal Seminar, Amsterdam, 11/2008

5 CREST Interval Seminar, Paris, 10/2006 and 06/2008 Seminar of applied economics and econometrics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 04/2008 Language: French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basis) Software: LaTex WinEdt, SAS V8. and V9., STATA V9 and V10, GAUSS V8, Fortran F90