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Employed 40 hours or not-employed 39 : lessons from the 1982 mandatory reduction of the workweek

Crépon, Bruno; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

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Does entry regulation hinder job creation? : Evidence from the French retail industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

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Why do firms recruit internationally? : Results from the IZA international employer survey 2000

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...

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Do firms really share rents with their workers?

Margolis, David N.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2001

We use matched firm-worker panel data from France and Norway to consider observationally equivalent alternatives to the … reduces the significance level in France to 89% (via an increase in the standard error of the estimate). The most complete … coefficient insignificant for France and weakens its significance for Norway and the presence of a more mobile labor force in …

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The matching efficiency of regional labour markets : a stochastic production frontier estimation, France 1990 - 1995

Ibourk, Aomar (contributor) - 2001

. We apply this methodology to examine regional disparities in France over the period 1990-1995. About 30% of the …

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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964 - 2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …

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Who gets the reward? : An empirical exploration of bonus pay and task characteristics

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2000

Contract theory predicts that workers are remunerated based on all available unbiased individual performance measures. In the real world, measures are often biased: tasks are too complex to include all measures, unforeseen contingencies occur for which contracts specify nothing, and the...

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The impact of differential payroll tax subsidies on minimum wage employment

Kramarz, Francis; Philippon, Thomas - 2000

In this article, we study the impact of changes of total labor costs on employment of low-wage workers in France in a …

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Flexibility vs. rigidity : does Spain have the worst of both worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We … higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much higher, putting Spain half-way between France and the US. This …

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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