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The perverse effects of partial employment protection reform : experience rating and French older workers

Behaghel, Luc (contributor); Crépon, Bruno (contributor); … - 2005

French firms laying off workers aged 50 and above have to pay a tax to the unemployment insurance system, known as the …

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program for displaced workers on their transition to permanent jobs

Cavaco, Sandra (contributor); Fougère, Denis (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we estimate the short-term effects of a French retraining program that was intended to improve … reemployment prospects of displaced workers. Our empirical analysis uses non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of …"In this paper we estimate the short-term effects of a French retraining program that was intended to improve …

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Is the household demand for in-home services sensitive to tax reductions? : The French case

Flipo, Anne (contributor); Fougère, Denis (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Our paper examines the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we estimate a structural model of demand for such services by using household individual data collected by INSEE (Paris) in 1996. In this model, the net hourly wage paid to the domestic...

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Youth unemployment and crime in France

Fougère, Denis (contributor); Kramarz, Francis (contributor) - 2006

social, economic and demographic variables using multiple waves of the French Labor Survey. We estimate a classic Becker type …

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Restaurant prices and the minimum wage

Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - 2009

We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price...

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Choosing the field of study in post-secondary education : do expected earnings matter?

Beffy, Magali; Fougère, Denis; Maurel, Arnaud - 2009

, we use French data coming from the 1992 and 1998 Génération surveys collected by the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur …

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of …. Our empirical analysis is based upon non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Matching estimates …

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The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)

Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our model makes it possible to distinguish between unobserved person heterogeneity and state-dependence. We estimate the model using state of the art Bayesian methods employing a...

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The effects of naturalization on immigrants' employment probability (France, 1968 - 1999)

Fougère, Denis (contributor); Safi, Mirna (contributor) - 2008

Démographique Permanent" (EDP) sample. The EDP is a panel dataset by which we can follow almost 1% of the French population from … 1968 to 1999 through information contained in the 1968, 1975, 1982, 1990 and 1999 French census. The sample we use (N = 36 …

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Training the unemployed in France : how does it affect unemployment duration and recurrence?

Ferracci, Marc - 2007

Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset...

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