using firm-level data in Chile, a non-OECD member under the considered time period, and France. We rely on two extensions of …-2001 in France, we first classify 20 comparable manufacturing industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in the type of …

France, we find that most of the firm-size wage effect and most of the inter-industry wage effect is due to person effects …

focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have large pay …

market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations … conclude that technological change, mediated through techies, is an important cause of polarization in France. Firm-level trade …

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

, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …