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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
Gehrke, Esther - 2014
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives : A Factor Proportions Approach
Ortega, Javier - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the … natives' wages is still positive but much smaller, and natives wages are negatively related to the number of natives. To …
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Labor Earnings Respond Differently to Income-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms
Lehmann, Etienne - 2011
We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over …
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The Assimilation of Young Workers into the Labour Market in France : A Stochastic Earnings Frontier Approach
Bazen, Stephen - 2017
left full-time education in France in 1998 and interviewed in 2001 and 2005, this paper examines the process of their …
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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation
Belzil, Christian - 2021
I perform the joint estimation of a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next, and a Mincer wage equation, using panel data taken from the NLSY. A very high degree of flexibility is achieved by approximating the distributions of idiosyncractic grade transition...
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Understanding Wage Floor Setting in Industry-Level Agreements : Evidence from France
Fougère, Denis - 2016
This paper examines empirically how industry-level wage floors are set in French industry-level wage agreements and how the national minimum wage (NMW) interacts with industry-level wage bargaining. For this, the authors use a unique dataset containing about 50,000 occupation-specific wage...
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss Across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo Maria; Barcelo, Cristina - 2022
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...
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Labor Market Concentration and Stayers' Wages : Evidence from France
Caroli, Eve; Bassanini, Andrea; Batut, Cyprien - 2022
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who … were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative data for France, we show that the elasticity … of stayers' wages to labor market concentration ranges between -0.0185 and -0.0230, depending on the instrument we use …
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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - 2021
of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model …
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