This paper is a statistical evaluation of the 1997 enterprise zone program in France. Weinvestigate whether the program increased the pace at which unemployed workers residing intargeted municipalities and surrounding areas ?nd employment. The work relies on a two-stage analysis of unemployment...

We investigate inference in semi-parametric binary regression models, y = 1(x¯ +v+² 0) when ² is assumed uncorrelated with a set of instruments z, ² is independentof v conditionally on x and z, and the conditional support of ² is su¢ciently smallrelative to the support of v. We...

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile-de-France). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipalityon an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells...