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Les politiques de l'emploi
Erhel, Christine - 2014 - 2. éd., mise à jour
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430030
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'One Muslim is Enough!' - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Adida, Claire L. - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118034
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Diversity and Public Goods : A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
Algan, Yann - 2011
identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119010
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The Costs of Agglomeration : Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096770
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity), possibly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107198
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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107199
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Gender, Economic Development and Islam : A Perspective from France
Adida, Claire L. - 2012
national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108263
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Wages and Employment of French Workers with African Origin
Aeberhardt, Romain - 2007
Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French workers whose at least one parent had the citizenship of an African country at birth. For that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776515
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The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality : A Comparative Study for Britain and France
Bryson, Alex - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959061
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The Production Function for Housing : Evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2016
housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978173