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The effect of location on finding a job in the greater Paris area

Gobillon, Laurent (contributor); Magnac, Thierry (contributor) - 2007

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France …

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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....

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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …

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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets

Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … rate gap in both France and the US, amounting to 17% to 25% of the relative gap in France and about 10% in the US. Among … these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …

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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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Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality : the key role of innovative procedures

Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2012

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

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Homeownership of immigrants in France : selection effects related to international migration flows

Gobillon, Laurent; Solignac, Matthieu - 2015

We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how …

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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France

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

areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …

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Analyzing the Anticipation of Treatments Using Data on Notification Dates

Crepon, Bruno - 2010

treatment on the outcome are identified. We estimate the model on an administrative data set of unemployed workers in France … anticipation" assumption and rules out a "threat effect" of training programs in France …

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'One Muslim is Enough!' - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Adida, Claire L. - 2011

Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...

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