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Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Laouenan, Morgane - HAL - 2011

-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of … the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run … discrimination in the French labor market for contact jobs; a decrease in discrimination intensity by one standard deviation would …

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Should vocational education be taxed? Lessons from a matching model with generalists and specialists

Cerdan, Ophélie; Decreuse, Bruno - HAL - 2011

Should education become more vocational or more general? We address this question in two steps. We first build and solve a two-sector matching model with generalists and specialists. Generalists pursue jobs in both sectors; however, they come second in job queues. Specialists seek for jobs in a...

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FDI and the labor share in developing countries: A theory andsome evidence

Decreuse, Bruno; Maarek, Paul - HAL - 2008

This paper addresses the impact of FDI on the factor distribution of income in developing countries. We propose a theory that relies on the impacts of FDI on productive heterogeneity between firms in a frictional labor market. We argue that FDI have two opposite effects on the labor share: a...

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Over-education for the rich vs under-education for the poor: a search-theoretic microfoundation

Charlot, Olivier; Decreuse, Bruno - HAL - 2006

This paper provides a search-theoretic microfoundation to the popular view according to which rich but poorly talented individuals crowd out poorer and more talented individuals from schooling. We consider a two-sector, two schooling level matching model of unemployment with ex-post...

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The Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Schmutz, Benoît - HAL - 2012

This paper provides a method to single out customer-based discrimination in the housing market. We build a matching …-dwelling landlord, we can test whether there is customer discrimination or not. We run the test on French data and show evidence of … customer discrimination in the rental market. …

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How to make the metropolitan area work ? Neither big government, nor laissez-faire

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - HAL - 2013

We study how political boundaries and fiscal competition interact with the labor and land markets to determine the economic structure and performance of metropolitan areas. Contrary to general belief, institutional fragmentation need not be welfare-decreasing, and commuting from the suburbs to...

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Earning Inequalities Between and Within Nests

Bunel, Mathieu; Guironnet, Jean-Pascal - HAL - 2011

This paper presents a simultaneously study of the impact of gender and localization inequalities on the earnings of under-graduates. Using multilevel modeling, the framework draws both individual-level (i.e., pertaining to the individual elements of groups) and aggregate-level (i.e., pertaining...

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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs: females trapped at the bottom of the ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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(Petite) histoire de la discrimination (dans les assurances)

Pradier, Pierre-Charles - HAL - 2011

Une étude de l'histoire de la discrimination dans l'assurance montre que les données actuarielles sont rarement … suffisantes pour justifier dans le public cette discrimination. On étudie en particulier la discrimination à l'égard des femmes à …'acceptabilité sociale de la discrimination dans les assurances. …

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How Can Gender Discrimination Explain Fertility Behaviors and Family-friends Policies ?

Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2008

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …

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