This paper develops and implements a method to identify and estimate treatmenteffects in a dynamic setting where treatments may occur at any point in time. Bycombining the standard matching approach to the timing-of-events approach, itdemonstrates that the effect of the treatment on the treated...

When treatments may occur at di®erent points in time, most evaluation methodsassume - implicitly or explicitly - that all the information used by subjects about theoccurrence of a future treatment is available to the researcher. This is often called the\no anticipation" assumption. In reality,...

Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generallyfind little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition ratesout of unemployment.We perform the first evaluation of training effectsfor the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a unique longitudinaldataset from...

We write and estimate a dynamic model of wages, amenities and labor mobility.Workers trade off wage and amenity offers when deciding whether to change jobs,while facing heterogenous mobility costs. We show that these frictions can turn strongindividual preferences for non wage characteristics...

This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...

We study the effect of the large increase of payroll tax subsidies for low-wage workersthat occurred in France in 1995. We compute the ex ante changes in average labor costs in1994 solely due to the changes in the tax subsidies and consider it as a treatment variable.We extend the Rubin causal...

We investigate the relationship between wages, productivity, and workercharacteristics using a new exhaustive matched employer–employee longitudinaldataset for France. Expanding on the methodology originally proposed byHellerstein, Neumark and Troske (1999), we relax their hypotheses and...

We develop a partial equilibrium stochastic job matching model of the labor market to examine whetherthe counseling of unemployment workers displaces unemployed workers not offered the counseling. Inthis model, the improvement of the reservation utility of counseled job seekers induces them to...