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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 2010

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 …

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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 Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France

Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2012

In this paper, we aim to shed light on the relative contribution of the separation and job finding rates to French unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We first investigate the fluctuations in steady state...

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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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Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments : A Tale of Two Surveys

Behaghel, Luc - 2009

The randomized trial literature has helped to renew the fields of microeconometric policy evaluation by emphasizing identification issues raised by endogenous program participation. Measurement and attrition issues have perhaps received less attention. This paper analyzes the dramatic impact of...

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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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Do Hiring Credits Work in Recessions? Evidence from France

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

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

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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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