Gilles Saint-Paul

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Gilles Saint-Paul (born February 8, 1963 in Saint-Étienne ) is a French economist .

Career, research and teaching

Saint-Paul first studied at the École polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées . In 1990 he graduated as a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in 1994 he completed his habilitation at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . From 1997 he taught and researched as a professor at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona , before he accepted an appointment at the University of Toulouse I in 2000 . At the same time, he was director of the Labor Economics Department at the London Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) until 2001 .

Saint-Paul's work focuses on political economy , labor economics, income distribution and fiscal policy . Saint-Paul has received various awards for his work, including the 2007 Yrjö Jahnsson Prize . He has been a Research Fellow at CEPR since 1991, at the Bonn Institute for the Future of Work since 1999 and at the Munich Center for Economic Studies since 2001 .

Works

The following is a list of books published by Saint-Paul, as well as the author of numerous magazine articles and working papers.

  • Dual Labor Markets. A Macroeconomic Perspective (1996)
  • The Political Economy of Labor Market Institutions (2000)
  • Innovation and Inequality: How does Technical Progress Affect Workers? (2008)
  • The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism (2011)

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