This paper investigates the links between family values, social needs and individual preferences for welfare using data from the 2005 French “Generation and Gender Survey” (GGS). We analyse individual preferences, for financial assistance and the provision of care services, with respect to...

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

Lack of economic assimilation of immigrants often results in social and political unrest of a society. The increased desire to understand better the nature of the assimilation process of immigrants is due to increased immigration flows in many western countries. In this paper we try to study the...

We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...

Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination scores for hiring French public sector workers, we test whether women and men with the same civil...

La réforme du 17 janvier 2003 a unifié les dispositifs d'exonération de cotisations sociales entre les entreprises à 35 heures et celles à 39 heures tout en réalisant sur une période de trois ans, de 2003 à 2005, la convergence entre le Smic horaire et les différentes garanties...

Les progrès des technologies de l'information et des communications sont indéniables mais l'on est pas encore parvenu à mettre en évidence un impact quelconque de ces technologies sur les performances des économies mesurées à un niveau agrégé. Telle est la conclusion que l'on peut tirer...

Lorsqu'ils tentent d'étudier les effets des TIC sur le niveau de l'emploi, autour du paradoxe de la productivité, ou sur la structure des emplois, avec les determinants du biais technologique, les économistes se heurtent peut-être à la même difficulté. Dans les deux cas en effet, il...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the employment effect of wage tax cuts in the four French departements d?outre mer (Guadeloupe, Guyana, La Réunion, Martinique). We are using an ad hoc theoretical model calibrated on administrative data sources. Our model distinguishes several skill levels...