This article investigates discrimination and the interplay of residential and ethnic stigma on the French housing market using two different methods, paired-testing au- dit study of real estate agencies and face-to-face interviews with real estate agents. The juxtaposition of their findings...

Beaucoup de ménages ont du mal à louer pour la simple et bonne raison qu’ils sont victimes de pratiques discriminatoires de la part des bailleurs. François Bonnet, Mirna Safi, Étienne Lalé et Étienne Wasmer étudient ces pratiques à partir d’une enquête de terrain menée auprès des...

We document a new fact about the cyclical behavior of aggregate hours. Using microdata for the US and the UK, we show that changes in hours per worker are driven by fluctuations in part-time employment, which are in turn explained by the cyclical behavior of transitions between full-time and...