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This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
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This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the connection between the interest rate and the unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging)...
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zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we …
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Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French workers whose at least one parent had the citizenship of an African country at birth. For that...
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Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …
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We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...
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Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...
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Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was … upper tail wage inequality in France relative to other countries. Using a model with imperfect substitution between … wage inequality at the top of the distribution in France during this period is explained by the increase in the educational …
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