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The production function for housing : evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016

housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …

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The effects of firm size on job quality : a comparative study for Britain and France

Bryson, Alex; Erhel, Christine; Salibekyan, Zinaida - 2017

-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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The French productivity puzzle

Askenazy, Philippe; Erhel, Christine - 2015

Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are …

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The dynamics of local employment in France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The costs of agglomeration : land prices in French cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

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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Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones? : the French experience

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - 2012

This paper presents an impact evaluation of the French enterprise zone program which was initiated in 1997 to help unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally....