This paper explains differences in wages and hierarchical positions in France according to national origin. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey carried out in 2002. The business survey provides very reliable wage data which are matched to many individual-level variables...

How many workers are confined indefinitely in a labor cycle, moving back and forth from temporary jobs to nonemployment periods without the potential to secure a steady job? To answer this question, we develop a mixture of four Markov chains, each of them modeling a specific type of labor market...

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This paper evaluates the impact of continuous training provided by firms on wages and inter-firm mobility. For that purpose, we use the survey "Formation et Qualification Professionnelle" (FQP) collected by Insee (Paris) in 1993. This survey registers the identities of firms employing the...