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The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why are They Lower than in the United States?)

Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Mosche; Fougère, Denis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our model makes it possible to distinguish between unobserved person heterogeneity and state-dependence. We estimate the model using state of the art Bayesian methods employing a...

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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of laid-off workers. This program, called “Conventions de conversion”, was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...

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The Effect of College Employment on Graduation: Evidence from France

Beffy, Magali; Fougère, Denis; Maurel, Arnaud - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates the effect of employment while in college on graduation, using data from the French Labour Force Surveys over the period 1992 to 2002. Using spatial variation in low-skill youth unemployment rates to circumvent the endogeneity of college employment decisions, we find a...

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Using Matching Estimators to Evaluate Alternative Youth Employment Programs: Evidence from France, 1986-1988

Brodaty, Thomas; Crépon, Bruno; Fougère, Denis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper we apply the statistical framework recently proposed by Imbens (1999) and Lechner (1999) to identify the causal effects of multiple treatments under the conditional independence assumption. We show that under this assumption, matching with respect to the ratio of the scores allows...

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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence

Lederman, Daniel - 2009

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This … article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight … manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …

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Innovation and export portfolios

Klinger, Bailey - 2006

negative relationship between the concentration of innovation portfolios and performance: countries that are the most …

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Diversification, innovation, and imitation inside the global technological frontier

Lederman, Daniel - 2006

the empirical relationship between economic development and (1) inside-the-frontier-innovation as reflected by the …-the-frontier innovation as reflected in patents. The data suggest, unsurprisingly, that inside-the-frontier innovation is more common among … changes in the industrial composition of exports. The authors use a simple model of innovation and imitation to test the …

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Innovation and development around the world, 1960-2000

Lederman, Daniel - 2005

include measures of innovation outcomes as well as variables related to innovation effort. The main indicator of innovation … outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and … of innovation outputs and inputs by looking at the over-time behavior of the relevant series and comparing the …

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Discovery and development : an empirical exploration of "new" products

Klinger, Bailey - 2004

the region to understand the role of innovation in development"--World Bank web site …

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