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In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to …
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This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
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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...
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identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from …
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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...
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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...
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areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …
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national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a …
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school by sending fictitious résumés to real job postings in France. Compared to those who have stayed unemployed since …
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