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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …
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This paper attempts to explain national origin wage differentials in France. Our data come from a matched employer … according to the parents’ birthplace (France, North Africa and Southern Europe). We perform a switching regression model of wage …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less … most groups of immigrants. Similarly, there is a significant wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers, but this …
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comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual … instruments, we show that labor court decisions have a causal effect on labor flows. More trials and more cases won by the workers … cause more job destructions. More settlements, higher filing rates, and a larger fraction of workers represented by a lawyer …
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-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
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Youth unemployment is notoriously high in France, in particular for the low-skilled. Within the EU, only the crisis …
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. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub …
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This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France …
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