In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to …

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 …

and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of 17,653 firms over the period 1986-2001 in France, 8,725 firms over the …

school by sending fictitious résumés to real job postings in France. Compared to those who have stayed unemployed since …

minimum wage in firms with less than 10 employees in France from December 2008 to December 2009. Using rich administrative …

Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are …

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 …