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We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
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Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity), possibly...
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areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …
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) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two …-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job seekers to be assigned to treatment (0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or100%) were …
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Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More … (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a moderate rent), which is the main public housing policy in France. For that purpose …
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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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In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the … the 95 departements of metropolitan France) with measures of crimes as reported to the Ministry of Interior. To assess …
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reservation wages, including key policy variables such as unemployment insurance (UI), is scarce. In France, unemployed people … with respect to PBD of 0.3 is in line with the consensus in the literature. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design as …
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-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The … associated with non-pecuniary job quality in both countries but in France the association is confined to only the largest firms …
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We investigate how internal labor markets (ILMs) affect labor adjustments and performance in business groups. We show that group-affiliated units faced with positive shocks to growth opportunities rely on the ILM to ensure swift hiring, especially of managers and other high-skilled workers. A...
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