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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - 2012

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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The effect of location on finding a job in the greater Paris area

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - 2007

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France …

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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … rate gap in both France and the US, amounting to 17% to 25% of the relative gap in France and about 10% in the US. Among … these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …

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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …

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Spatial disparities in hospital performance

Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2012

Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an 80% difference in the propensity to die within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect...

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The costs of agglomeration: Land prices in French cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also …

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Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality: The key role of innovative procedures

Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2012

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

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