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

This paper provides new estimates of the impact of the French tax credit on the employment outcomes of women. We model … allow for hours responses. The data for the analysis are drawn from the French labour force surveys of years 1999 to 2002 …. We find no significant impact of the tax credit on either employment or hours of French women. …

spouse, allowing for correlation across the errors of the ten equations. We exploit the rich information in the French time …

the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use labor-force survey data, pooled over … different years, on fifty thousand French couples and apply a regression discontinuity framework, also controlling for couple …

compelling evidence of external labour market strategies based on "excess turnover". In contrast, French firms heavily rely on …

employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share …