We describe and analyse the changes in the occupational structure of french manufacturing firms between 1984 and 1985. We develop and test a labor demand model that shows the role played by technological change.

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...

In this paper, we analyse the changes in the risks of involuntary job loss in France between 1982 and 2000. Our analysis suggests that these risks are structurally higher in the 1990s than they were in the 1980s for both high and low-seniority workers.

Using data covering three successive generations of people from Madagascar, we construct a new semi-parametric estimator of the effect of parental income on the decision to send children to school. We propose new tests for detecting the simultaneity and hereditary biases that affect the usual...

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...

This paper analyses the effects of introducing fixed-term labour contracts (FTC) on employment and economic mobility within a competitive equilibrium framework.

An increasing body of work based on American data suggests that the differences in performance between children from rich and poor families are not due to the differences in family income per se, but to unmeasured factors (typically hereditary traits) which simultaneously explain parents' income...

What are the effects of providing assistance to intact families when the principal earner is unemploed while denying it when she/he is employed? The existing literature suggests that this practice has strong work-disincentive effects and favors persistent unemployment and welfare dependency.

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...