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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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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution : evidence from France

Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2013

framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …

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Dynamic monopsony : evidence from a French establishment panel

Fakhfakh, Fathi (contributor); FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor) - 2005

This paper uses a panel of about 6000 French establishments to test some implications of the modern theory of dynamic monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much larger long run employer size - wage effect (ESWE) than...

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The impact of regulation on innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France …

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Firm-size wage gaps along the formal-informal divide : theory and evidence

Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Industrial Relations, 2016

Observationally equivalent workers are paid higher wages in larger firms. This fact is often named as the "firm-size wage gap" and is regarded as a key empirical puzzle. Using micro-level data from Turkey, we document a new stylized fact: the firm-size wage gap is more pronounced for informal...

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Health insurance benefit mandates and the firm-size distribution

Bailey, James; Webber, Douglas A. - 2015

By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates likely increase health insurance premiums, which in turn could make it more costly for firms to...

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Patterns of integration : low educated people and their jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary

Köllő, János - 2013

The paper looks at how the distribution of jobs by complexity and firms' willingness to hire low educated labor for jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their...

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Human capital and the size distribution of firms

Gomes, Pedro; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014

Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the availability of skilled workers: i) the education level of the workforce and ii) large public sectors...

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...

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Size of training firms : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers' careers

Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...

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