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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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-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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This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the …
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We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period …
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housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …
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Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are …
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incorporates both output (sales or turnover) and cash flow as predictors for investment. Our focus is on two comparisons: France …
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France and proposes an ex ante evaluation of the major reform implemented in 2008. We first estimate an error correction …
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