From French data, this paper uses a difference-in-differences approach combined with propensity score matching to identify the effect of an exogenous change in employment protection among older workers on firm’s incentives to sponsor training. Laying off workers aged 50 and above, French firms...

From French data, this paper uses a difference-in-differences approach combined with propensity score matching to identify the effect of older workers employment protection on firm?s incentives to sponsor training. Laying off workers aged 50 and above between 1987 and 2008, French firms had...

This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach, combined with propensity score matching, to identify the effect of older workers employment protection on French firms' incentives to sponsor training. Between 1987 and 2008, French firms laying off workers aged over 50 had to pay a tax to...

While numerous studies have provided selectivity-corrected estimates of the wage returns to training both in the US and in European countries, less is known about the impact of training on mobility on the labour market. In this paper, we estimate the impact of firmprovided training on both the...

Nous évaluons les effets d'une expérimentation nationale qui consiste à proposer à 10 000 jeunes en difficulté d'insertion une participation financière significative, de l'ordre de 1000 €, et un accompagnement personnalisé pour leur permettre de passer le permis de conduire....

In this paper, we argue that ¯ring decisions of ¯rms can help ex- plain the shape of the wage distribution. To emphasize this result, we consider a matching model with both idiosyncratic productivity shocks that hit jobs and heterogeneity of workers according to ex ante unob- servable...

In this paper we examine the consequences of a decrease in exits of older workers on youth employment, allowing for job-to-job áows. We distinguish between young workers with no experience and experienced workers and we consider jobs with di§erent experience requirements. Using a theoretical...