Camille Landais

Director of STICERD, Public Economics Programme Co-director, Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Co-director and Professor of Economics

Expertise: public finance, labour economics, applied microeconomics, microeconometrics

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 7864

Email:

c.landais@lse.ac.uk

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Department of Economics

Biography

Camille Landais is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and an associate of LSE's International Inequalities Institute. At STICERD he is Director of the Public Economics Programme and Co-Director of the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy.

Latest

Journal article

Should we insure workers or jobs during recessions?

01 May 2022

Giulia Giupponi, Camille Landais and Alice Lapeyre

What is the most efficient way to respond to recessions in the labor market? To this question, policymakers on the two sides of the pond gave diametrically opposed answers during the COVID-19 crisis. In the United States... Read more...

Blog

The hidden costs of incentivising later retirement

22 March 2022

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Daniel Reck and Johannes Spinnewijn

Over the past two decades, many countries have reformed their public pension systems in pursuit of desirable fiscal effects, often by introducing or strengthening incentives for later retirement. However, the welfare eff... Read more...

Blog

Social insurance policies in turbulent times: short-time work versus unemployment insurance

12 November 2021

Giulia Giupponi, Camille Landais and Alice Lapeyre

While the US aggressively extended generosity of unemployment insurance in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, Europe heavily subsidised reductions in hours worked and temporary layoffs through short-time work or similar ... Read more...

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Retirement Consumption and Pension Design

24 February 2021

Camille Landais (LSE)

CEP Labour Markets Workshop

Retirement Consumption and Optimal Pension Design

01 December 2020

Camille Landais (LSE)

CEP discussion papers

Subsidizing labor hoarding in recessions: the employment and welfare effects of short time work

03 December 2018

Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais

The Great Recession has seen a revival of interest in policies encouraging labor hoarding by firms. Short time work (STW) policies, which consist in offering subsidies for hours reductions to workers in firms experiencin... Read more...

Journal article

A Macroeconomic Approach to Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Applications

01 May 2018

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

In the United States, unemployment insurance (UI) is more generous when unemployment is high. This paper examines whether this policy is desirable. The optimal UI replacement rate is the Baily-Chetty replacement rate plu... Read more...

Journal article

A macroeconomic approach to optimal unemployment insurance: Theory

01 May 2018

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

This paper develops a theory of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) in matching models. The optimal UI replacement rate is the conventional Baily-Chetty replacement rate, which solves the tradeoff between insurance and j... Read more...

CEP discussion papers

Risk-based selection in unemployment insurance: evidence and implications

16 October 2017

Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper studies whether adverse selection can rationalize a universal mandate for unemployment insurance (UI). Building on a unique feature of the unemployment policy in Sweden, where workers can opt for supplemental ... Read more...

Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers

Risk-based Selection in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence and Implications

10 October 2017

Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn

Journal article

Gender Inequality and Economic Development: Fertility, Education and Norms

01 April 2017

Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais

We document the evolution of gender inequality in labour market outcomes—earnings, labour supply and wage rates—over the path of economic development, and present evidence on the potential reasons for this evolution. To ... Read more...

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

11 November 2015

Camille Landais (LSE)

CEP discussion papers

The optimal timing of UI benefits: theory and evidence from Sweden

08 July 2015

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incenti... Read more...