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 …

zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape firms' operational environment in general and … using firm-level data in Chile – a non-OECD member under the considered time period – and France. We rely on two extensions …-2001 in France, we first classify 20 comparable manufacturing industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in the type of …

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less …

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …

were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative data for France, we show that the elasticity …