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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010

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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Working in Family Firms : Less Paid But More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bassanini, Andrea - 2011

We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...

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The Costs of Agglomeration : Land Prices in French Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity), possibly...

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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …

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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies : Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2013

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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Do Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from French High Schools

Breda, Thomas - 2020

This paper, based on a large-scale field experiment, tests whether a one-hour exposure to external female role models with a background in science affects students' perceptions and choice of field of study. Using a random assignment of classroom interventions carried out by 56 female scientists...

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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017

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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The Production Function for Housing : Evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2016

housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …

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Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2015

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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