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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours : Lessons from the French Experiment

Cahuc, Pierre - 2011

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

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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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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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The Difficult School-to-Work Transition of High School Dropouts : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Cahuc, Pierre - 2017

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

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The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality : A Comparative Study for Britain and France

Bryson, Alex - 2017

-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The … associated with non-pecuniary job quality in both countries but in France the association is confined to only the largest firms …

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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 Detrimental Effect of Job Protection on Employment : Evidence from France

Cahuc, Pierre - 2019

According to French law, employers have to pay at least six months salary to employees whose seniority exceeds two years in case of unfair dismissal. We show, relying on data, that this regulation entails a hike in severance payments at two-year seniority which induces a significant rise in the...

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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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The French Productivity Puzzle

Askenazy, Philippe - 2015

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

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