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the market price for domestic services. We exploit time-diary data for Great Britain and France, relying on cross …
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Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
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and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of 17,653 firms over the period 1986-2001 in France, 8,725 firms over the …
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Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a...
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Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...
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stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage …
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Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use labor-force survey data, pooled over different years, on fifty thousand French couples and apply...
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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 …
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We estimate a structural model of education choices in which individuals choose between a professional (or technical) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98). The average per-period utility of attending general high school (about...
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same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we … bargaining process in France over the considered period …
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