The aim of this paper is to evaluate the employment effect of wage tax cuts in the four French departements d?outre mer (Guadeloupe, Guyana, La Réunion, Martinique). We are using an ad hoc theoretical model calibrated on administrative data sources. Our model distinguishes several skill levels...

We measure hiring discrimination based on gender and the applicant?s mobility, as indicated in his/her resume (car and motorcycle driving licenses mentioned or not in the CV). A correspondence testing was performed to examine access to job interviews of young management accountants living in...

The main interest of impact evaluations with experimental methods lies in their ability to measure precisely the effect of a social program when there is no preexisting data and when the theoretical framework is still the subject of many debates. These methods also allow for controlling both...

Using data from a randomized social experiment conducted in French Univesité du Maine in 2010-2012, we investigate how to mitigate the negative impact of student work on academic achievement. The experimented program consisted in proposing the students, willing to work, an access to a large set...

Randomized evaluation of public policies began to be applied to major social programs in France since 2007, more than forty years after the first similar work in the United States. They have been experiencing rapid development. These experimental methods are to evaluate the effects of a policy...

In France, the coexistence of three expensive policies intended to reduce the labor cost, a general payroll tax cut on low-paid jobs, the Tax Credit for Competition and Employment and the Responsibility Pact announced in early 2014 is a source of complexity that makes the overall tax-benefit...

In each economy there is employment favourable to biodiversity, which we call bio-jobs. These jobs are located in a small number of branches linked to or controlling natural resources: green core activities, quarrying, public works, water and waste management, etc. We are interested in the...

With the Great Paris Express project, the expansion of public transport infrastructure will involve a new deal for travel time of many inhabitants who will become users. This project is likely to have important effects on the labor market, both on demand and labor supply, by gathering together...

In the French social system, employers get reductions of the social security contributions which are targeted on low wage workers. The total amount of these reductions is 20 billion of Euros. In the crisis context, it has been proposed to reform the actual system in several ways. We propose to...