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Her Time, His Time, or the Maid's Time : An Analysis of the Demand for Domestic Work
Stancanelli, Elena - 2010
the market price for domestic services. We exploit time-diary data for Great Britain and France, relying on cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136728
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138258
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122406
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085064
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Household Consumption at Retirement : A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data
Moreau, Nicolas - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073440
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835885
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942047
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Marital Status and Retirement : An Empirical Study for France
Doorley, Karina - 2019
stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870187
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Couples' Retirement Under Individual Pension Design : A Regression Discontinuity Study for France
Stancanelli, Elena - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979860
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016354