French firms laying off workers aged 50 and above have to pay a tax to the unemployment insurance system, known as the …

to help finance its expected deficit. This trade-off is captured by a Laffer curve that we quantify on French data …

to that of the French economy. We then develop a multi-sectorial search and matching model with endogenous occupational …. The most productive French routine workers would have been worse off without LMI changes. In contrast, displaced low …-ability, routine French workers would have preferred a more flexible labor market to improve their employment prospects in their …

compelling evidence of external labour market strategies based on "excess turnover". In contrast, French firms heavily rely on …

employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share …

We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that …