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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives : A Factor Proportions Approach

Ortega, Javier - 2011

This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 …

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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 2010

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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Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium : Labor Market Imperfections Matter

de la Croix, David - 2010

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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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama - 2010

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …

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Labor Earnings Respond Differently to Income-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms

Lehmann, Etienne - 2011

We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over …

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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth : The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Betzer, André - 2011

This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while...

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Labor Income Responds Differently to Income-Tax and Payroll-Tax Reforms

Lehmann, Etienne - 2012

We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over …

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Trade, Wages, and Profits

Egger, Hartmut - 2012

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

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