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...

[spa] Una medición de la discriminación en la diferencia de salario entre hombres y mujeres Las diferencias de salario entre hombres y mujeres se deben a multiples factores. Primero, los empleos ocupados no tienen las mismas caracterlsticas: las duraciones medias de trabajo de las mujeres son...

[spa] En 2002, la diferencia salarial media mensual de mujeres y hombres es de 25,3 %, es decir, apenas un punto menos de lo que era en 1990. Además, los componentes de esta disparidad, bien sean estructurales, es decir, resultado de las diferencias en las características productivas y en los...

[ger] Die direkten Nachkommen maghrebinischer Einwanderer in Frankreich, gleichgültig ob Frauen oder Männer, sind bei Gleichstand aller anderen Faktoren mehr dem Risiko der Arbeitslosigkeit ausgesetzt als in Franreich von zwei französischen Elternteilen geborene Personen oder Nachkommen der...

[fre] Les flux entre emploi, chômage et inactivité : leurs effets sur les variations du chômage . En France, les chances de conserver son emploi ou de rester inactif n'ont pas beaucoup varié depuis le début des années soixante-dix jusqu'à aujourd'hui ; en revanche, les chances de sortir...