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The Effect of Segregation and Spatial Mismatch on Unemployment: Evidence from France

Gobillon, Laurent; Selod, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper, we investigate how residential segregation and bad physical access to jobs contribute to urban unemployment in the Paris region. We first survey the general mechanisms according to which residential segregation and spatial mismatch can have adverse labour-market outcomes. We then...

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Welfare Differentials Across French and US Labour Markets

Cohen, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The paper computes lifetime welfare functions for French and American workers. For the vast majority of workers, we find that the lifetime discrepancy between the welfare of an employed and that of an unemplyed worker appear to quite similar in the two countries, corresponding to nine monthly...

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A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings

Fainmesser, Itay; Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

controversies the last few years. The difficulty arises because there is a need to make a complete ranking of teams even though each … establish a ranking of patents or academic journals, etc. in which the raw data are (incomplete) bilateral citations or … interactions among objects. This paper develops and estimates a simple consistent weighted ranking (CWR) scheme which, in the …

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Looking Into The Black Box: A Survey Of The Matching Function

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We survey the microfoundations, empirical evidence and estimation issues underlying the aggregate matching function. Several microeconomic matching mechanisms have been suggested in the literature with some successes but none is generally accepted as superior to all others. Instead, an aggregate...

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