Pierre Cahuc

Pierre Cahuc (born January 18, 1962) is a French economist who currently works as Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

He is Program Director for the IZA Institute of Labor Economics's programme "Labour Markets"[1] and research fellow at CEPR.

[4] Pierre Cahuc earned master's degrees in public law, political science, and economics from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1984, followed by a DEA in macroeconomics in 1985, a D.E.A.

[10] He has written books on the economics of salary negotiations, the reduction of working time, unemployment in France, social security, job flows, minimum wages, unemployment insurance, vocational education, economic debate, and social trust; his book on this last topic, The Society of Defiance ("La Société de Défiance") written with Yann Algan, documents how distrust between French citizens among each other as well as with regard to the market economy and government has been growing since the 1990s, eroding civic behaviour, and argues that this growing distrust is both due and in turn fuels French corporatism, wherein the government regulates large aspects of citizens' lives.

[11] Together with André Zylberberg and Stéphane Carcillo, he has written several textbooks on labour economics aimed at graduate students.