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Close neighbours matter : neighbourhood effects on early performance at school
Goux, Dominique (contributor); Maurin, Eric (contributor) - 2006
considerably larger than those which matter for outcomes (i.e. close neighbours). Several institutional features of France enable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310967
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Sentence reductions and recidivism : lessons from the Bastille Day quasi experiment
Maurin, Eric; Ouss, Aurélie - 2009
This paper exploits the collective pardon granted to individuals incarcerated in French prisons on the 14th of July, 1996 (Bastille Day) to identify the effect of collective sentence reductions on recidivism. The collective pardon generated a very significant discontinuity in the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808613
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Restaurant prices and the minimum wage
Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - 2009
price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price Index in France and we estimate a price rigidity model based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825142
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003601864
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530667
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Worktime regulations and spousal labour supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238638
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Wage rigidity, collective bargaining and the minimum wage : evidence from French agreement data
Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - 2011
Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both industry and firm levels in France, we document stylized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310034
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756108
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Trade, wages, and collective bargaining : evidence from France
Carluccio, Juan; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - 2015
We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488816