The estimation of the elasticity of hours to wages relies mostly on laborsupply models although workers choices of hours may be constrained. This article reexaminesthe theoretical meaning of this elasticity accounting for labor demand. To do so, we introducepart-time work characteristics within...

Does productivity increase with density? We revisit the issue using French wage and TFP data.To deal with the ‘endogenous quantity of labour’ bias (i.e., urban agglomeration is consequenceof high local productivity rather than a cause), we take an instrumental variable approach andintroduce...

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...