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 …

zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was … upper tail wage inequality in France relative to other countries. Using a model with imperfect substitution between … wage inequality at the top of the distribution in France during this period is explained by the increase in the educational …

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 …

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less …