In this paper, we analyze the changes in the risks of involuntary job loss in France between 1982 and 2000. We find that these risks are higher in the 1990s than they were in the 1980s, for both educated and non-educated workers, high-seniority and low-seniority workers. The decline in job...

This paper provides estimates of the causal effect of neighbourhood characteristics on children?'s educational outcomes. We develop several strategies in order to address the endogeneity issues. One of our strategy uses the available information on the socio-economic status of families who have...

What are the effects of making it possible to combine welfare with work? The existing literature suggests that this practice has strong work-incentive effects and represents a means for reducing unemployment and welfare dependency. In this paper we reassess this thesis using new US experimental...