French youth suffer from a high level of unemployment. This article evaluates how different social and individual characteristics influence job access channels.We distinguish between school and social networks and show that workers use networks differently depending on their characteristics....

This paper uses a panel of about 6000 French establishments to test some implications of the modern theory of dynamic monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much larger long run employer size - wage effect(ESWE) than...

The authors investigate the effects on absenteeism of two types of employee sharing plans—profit-sharing and employee share ownership—in 127 French firms over the years 1981–91. Both types of plan were associated with statistically significant reductions in absenteeism. Most...