Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generallyfind little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition ratesout of unemployment.We perform the first evaluation of training effectsfor the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a unique longitudinaldataset from...

In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment serviceon the search effort of unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment.For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and variablecosts of search in which unemployed workers select...

While a new retirement pension reform is currently discussed in France, it is crucial to evaluate previous reforms. Up to now, no evaluation of the 2003 reform is available, particularly for civil servants. This article deals with the impact of this reform on the retirement behaviour of public...

In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violentcrimes in France for the period 1990 to 2000. This analysis is the first extensive study for thiscountry. We construct a regional-level data set (for the 95 départements of metropolitanFrance) with measures...

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals’wage formation in France. Our model makes it possible to distinguish between unobservedperson heterogeneity and state-dependence. We estimate the model using state of the artbayesian methods employing a long...

We examine heterogeneity in price stickiness using a large, original, setof individual price data collected at the retail level for the computationof the French CPI. For that purpose, we estimate at a very high level ofdisaggregation competing-risks duration models that distinguish betweenprice...

This paper considers the semiparametric identification of endogenousand exogenous peer effects in the linear-in-means model. We showthat this model is generically identified when at least three differentsizes of peer groups are observed in the sample at hand. While unnecessaryin general,...

This survey is devoted to the statistical analysis of duration models and pointprocesses. The first section introduces specific concepts and definitions forsingle-spell duration models. Section two is devoted to the presentation ofconditional duration models which incorporate the effects of...