We estimate a model of labour demand that accounts for dynamics arising from the relative costs of hiring and firing workers on either indefinite-term contract (ITC) or fixed-term contract (FTC). We use a panel of 1,000 French firms, for which we can measure the number of entries and exits for...

The article describes the changes in educational and occupational attainment in France and the United States across the cohorts born from 1905 to 1951. To make a valid estimation of the variation in the effects of social background, the authors use a non-linear discrete-time model that controls...

In most Western countries employment protection laws protect above all jobs held by workers with the highest seniority. In this paper, we develop a labor demand model that takes this basic feature of western institutions into account.

Cet article evalue l'impact des formations financees par les employeurs sur la mobilite et les remunerations des salaries. On utilise l'enquete sur le Formation et la Qualification Professionnelle (FQP) realisee en 1993. Cette enquete permet d'identifier les employeurs avant et apres les actions...

The decline in the unskilled share of French employment is chiefly due to the slackness of domestic demand for those industries with the highest proportion of unskilled workers. The spread of computers has not been particularly conducive to substitution between skilled and unskilled labor. We...