[fre] Le marché du travail en France : quelques pistes d'analyse . Au cours des années quatre-vingt, les ajustements sur les marchés du travail français et américain ont été très contrastés. En France, comme en Europe, les salaires horaires réels moyens se sont, au minimum, maintenus...

[fre] Les contrats et stages aidés: un profit à moyen terme pour les participants? Les exemples du CIE, du CES et du Sife . . Des moyens financiers importants sont consacrés aux politiques publiques de l'emploi. Il est indispensable de mesurer leur efficacité. Des données originales ont...

In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the period 1990 to 2000. This analysis is the first extensive study for this country. We construct a regional-level data set (for the 95 départements of metropolitan France) with...

Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both the firm- and the industry-levels in France, we examine the impact of typical European wage-setting institutions on the form and the degree of wage rigidity. We highlight different stylized facts concerning wage stickiness. First, in...

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 unobserved person heterogeneity and state-dependence. We estimate the model using state of the art Bayesian methods employing a...

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of laid-off workers. This program, called “Conventions de conversion”, was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...

This paper evaluates the impact of continuous training provided by firms on wages and inter-firm mobility. For that purpose, we use the survey "Formation et Qualification Professionnelle" (FQP) collected by Insee (Paris) in 1993. This survey registers the identities of firms employing the...

This paper examines heterogeneity in price stickiness using a large, original, set of individual price data collected at the retail level for the computation of the French CPI. To that end, we estimate, at a very high level of disaggregation, competing-risks duration models that distinguish...