The ZEP (zones d’éducation prioritaire), which started in 1982, are one French example ofpositive discrimination in the education system. This program aims to improve the students’achievement in the most disadvantaged schools. It gives more financial resources to schoolsin disadvantaged...

We use the French “Customs files”, which provide an exhaustive account of the international tradetransactions carried out by firms across the period 1986-1992, to analyze the link between imports,exports, and the employment of manufacturing firms. Firms constantly involved in international...

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...

In this paper, I present direct micro-econometric evidence of the relationbetween individual wages of French workers and the import behavior of their employingfirms. First, a model shows that the impact of firms’ imports on workers’ wages notonly comes from movements in the quasi-rent...