This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...

We evaluate the wage impact of the strong and rapid increase in schoolinglevels experienced by the cohorts born after WWII in France. In order toidentify the causal effect of education, we exploit the fact that the smallgroup of people graduating from elite education (Grandes Ecoles)...

We develop a partial equilibrium stochastic job matching model of the labor market to examine whetherthe counseling of unemployment workers displaces unemployed workers not offered the counseling. Inthis model, the improvement of the reservation utility of counseled job seekers induces them to...

This article evaluates the effects of intensive counseling schemes that are providedto about 20% of the unemployed since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform(PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of assignmentof workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary...

Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income.This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's mainwelfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or RMI) to estimatemonetary gains to employment for welfare recipients. This is based on thedistribution...