We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … using state of the art bayesian methods employing a long panel (1976-1995) for France. Our results clearly show that returns … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …

This study investigates job polarization in the United States and in France. In the data, the dynamics of employment … France until the mid-1990s, and then rebounded until 2007. The evolution of US routine employment went in opposite directions … skilled labor are the main drivers of polarization in a context of growing employment levels. In France, in contrast …

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … using state of the art Bayesian methods employing a long panel (1976-1995) for France. Our results clearly show that returns … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …

In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a … on unemployment: positive shocks reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. For the observed process of … average job finding rate and so the business cycle cost. -- Business cycle costs ; unemployment dynamics …