Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status in France from 1968 to 1999. Design/methodology/approach – For that purpose, longitudinal data coming from a panel dataset which follows almost...

This paper formulates a model of job-search in which any labor contract supplied by an employer is jointly defined by a wage level and an expected duration; more precisely, it analyses the case in which there are two types of labor contracts, each one being characterized by specific...

This paper contains estimations of transition intensities between states characterizing the individual situation on the French labor market over the period 1986-1988. These states are: non-participation, unemployment, unstable jobs and stable jobs. The estimation methods allow to derive...

This paper deals with the evaluation of some public employment policies set up in France during the 1980's to improve the labour Market prospects of unskilled young workers. The evaluation implemented in this paper is restricted to the impact of such public measures on durations and outcomes of...

This compilation of original papers selected from the 19th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics and authored by an international cast of economists, lawyers, regulators and industry practitioners addresses perhaps the most significant problem that has ever faced the postal sector –...

This paper discusses the solution of nonlinear integral equations with noisy integral kernels as they appear in nonparametric instrumental regression. We propose a regularized Newton-type iteration and establish convergence and convergence rate results. A particular emphasis is on instrumental...