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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?
Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …, which can reduce migrants' quality when migrants are positively self-selected on unobservables. We also demonstrate that, in …
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The detrimental effect of job protection on employment : evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck; Prat, Julien - 2019
According to French law, employers have to pay at least six months salary to employees whose seniority exceeds two years in case of unfair dismissal. We show, relying on data, that this regulation entails a hike in severance payments at two-year seniority which induces a significant rise in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022430
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Couples' retirement under individual pension design : a regression discontinuity study for France
Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2016
Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate 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...
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The effectiveness of hiring credits
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - 2017
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had significant positive employment effects and no effects on wages. Relying on the quasi-experimental variation in...
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The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration : empirical evidence from France
Lochmann, Alexa; Rapoport, Hillel; Speciale, Biagio - 2018
We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798168
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Immigrants and firms' productivity : evidence from France
Mitaritonna, Cristina; Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed...
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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 Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs....
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In-work policies in Europe : killing two birds with one stone?
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Orsini, Kristian (contributor) - 2004
three European countries which experience severe poverty traps, namely Finland, France and Germany. The potential labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540602
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Is the collective model of labor supply useful for tax policy analysis? A simulation exercise
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Moreau, Nicolas (contributor) - 2005
from a joint to an individual taxation system in France. We show that the net-of-tax relative earning potential of the wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002544010
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Short-time compensation and establishment exit : an empirical analysis with French data
Calavrezo, Oana; Duhautois, Richard; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - 2010
According to the French law, the short-time compensation (STC) program aims at avoiding redundancies during short-term downturns. Even if it does not shield establishments from redundancies (Calavrezo, Duhautois and Walkowiak, 2009a), STC can preserve an establishment's survival. This paper...
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