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Household wealth, portfolio selection and consumption behavior

BEFFY, P.-O.; MONFORT, B. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2003

In the past twenty years, household wealth undergoes profound changes and in particular a notable increase of the share of financial wealth. The hike of stock market prices in the late 1990s, the burst of the speculative bubble since the summer of 2000 and the continued upsurge of housing prices...

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Public sector and business sector earnings: a comparison

FOURNIER, J.-Y. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2001

We compare public sector wages with private firm ones in 2000, without taking into account for work intensity, job … public sector provides higher wages to women, to unskilled or persons with low degrees, and in the provinces. Women get … higher wages in public sector, except those with high degrees in Paris. Men with high degrees get higher wages in firms, the …

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A reinterpretation of the relation between firm-specific pay inequalities and productivity

KOUBI, A.; ROUX, S. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2006

The main objective of this paper is to question the interpretation of the usually-found positive correlation between firm-specific pay inequalities and productivity. We estimate from French employer-employee matched data this correlation and confirm that it is positive, even after accounting for...

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Apparent returns on training in French firms: impacts on productivity and wages

Aubert, Patrick; CRÉPON, B.; ZAMORA, P. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2006

We estimate the productivity- and wage-returns to firm-provided training in a panel of French Firms. We find positive and significant returns to training on productivity. For instance, an increase in training intensity by 150 Euros per worker increases a firms labor productivity by 0.4 %....

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The approximate band-pass filter proposed by Christiano and Fitzgerald

FOURNIER, J.-Y. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2000

Detrending time series and isolating cyclical fluctuations is crucial for business cycle analysis and definition of economic policy. Band-pass filters provide a set of statistical methods to extract the cycle, defined according to a specified range of periodicities. Christiano and Fitzgerald...

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