unions on the unexplained gender wage gap: unions tend to increase both mens and womens wages in similar proportions. …

In this study, we provide an estimation of the average age-productivity profile in the French private sector. The … relative productivity of groups of workers is estimated through the relationship between a firms productivity and the age … structure of its labour force. We find that productivity rises with age up to 40, then remains quite stable afterwards. Our …

We estimate the productivity- and wage-returns to firm-provided training in a panel of French Firms. We find positive … and significant returns to training on productivity. For instance, an increase in training intensity by 150 Euros per … worker increases a firms labor productivity by 0.4 %. Moreover, firms benefit from providing training to their workers, since …

Trying to ascertain scientifically the existence and importance of gender-based salary discrimination runs into … are: direct general regression (for given attributes such as qualification levels, do salaries differ according to gender …, depending on gender ?); the Oaxaca-Blinder method (the effect of a given attribute - e.g. age or marital status - on salaries …