We use longitudinal individual wage and employement data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes to real minimum wage on an individual's employment status.

Using individual data on compensation, matched with establishment and firm data on performance and inputs, we compare the French and American pay systems.

This paper provides an empirical analysis at the firm level of the link between international trade and employment, for French manufacturing firms across the period 1986-1992, for which homogenous data are available. Firms constantly involved in international trade throughout the period...

Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to court over the years 1990 to 2003 in France, we examine the impact of the enforcement of Employment Protection Legislation on labor market outcomes. First, we present a simple theoretical model showing that judicial case outcomes cannot be...