This paper attempts to explain national origin wage differentials in France. Our data come from amatched employer-employee wage survey performed in 2002. Business survey data are matched to manyindividual-level variables collected in a household survey. The sample of professionals is...

This paper attempts to explain national origin wage differentials in France. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey performed in 2002. Business survey data are matched to many individual-level variables collected in a household survey. The sample of professionals is...

Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French workers whose at least one parent had the citizenship of an African country at birth. For that...

Using French firm-level trade data, we provide empirical support for a heterogenous firm model in which exporting requires finding a local partner in each market. In the model, contracts are incomplete, exporters must learn the reliability of their partners through experience and export...

[ger] Die Senkungen der Arbeitgeberbeiträge seit den 1990er Jahren hatte auf die Lohnsteigerung der Arbeitnehmer des Niedriglohnsektors unterschiedliche Auswirkungen. Da sie die Arbeitskosten der Arbeitgeber verringern, dürften sie auf das Lohnniveau bei gleicher Produktivität keine...

[eng] Employment rates and wages are 18 and 13 points lower, respectively, for French persons with at least one immigrant parent from North Africa than for French persons . both of whose parents are French-born. . . Our study seeks to determine the share of these gaps that can be attributed to...

This article provides an overview of the issue of ethnic differentials in wages and employment rates on the French labor market in a consistent empirical framework and with a single source of recent data. Wage differentials, even when they are high, are mainly due to differences in age and...

of exporting behavior. In addition - and differently from a standard sunk cost model - the model predicts more persistence of exporting behavior in markets with better legal institutions and for more productive exporters. We test these and other predictions on French firm level export data...

Using French firm-level trade data, we provide empirical support for a heterogeneous firm model in which exporting requires finding a local partner in each market: contracts are incomplete, exporters must learn the reliability of their partners through experience, and export behaviour is...