housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …

framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to … structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity.Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are … particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the acceleration of productivity during the previous … to have turned productivity more sensitive to the business cycle (and especially to the fall of stock markets) …