This paper develops a bargaining model of wage and employment determination for the public sector. the solution to the model generates structural wage and employment equations that are estimated using data from New York State teacher-school district collective bargaining agreements.

We propose a model of strategic interactions between a firm, its workers and its creditors in a dynamic, uncertain environment. We show that the fact that the firm can play off one stakeholders against another increases the likelihood and magnitude of concessions being made, either on a...

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.

In this paper, we consider the impact of displacement (defined as separation from a stable job due to firm closure) on workers in France. We find that a large share of displaced workers find new jobs without experiencing any interruption in their employment histories, and that falling into...

We use longitudinal individual wage and unemployment data for France and the United States to investigate the effect of intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-a-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition rates. We find that movements in both French and American real minimum...

We use matched firm - worker panel data from France and Norway to consider observationally equivalent alternatives to the hypothesis that firms share product market rents with their neither the main statistical explanations nor sectoral shocks seem to be responsible for the observed correlation.