[eng] Employment rates and wages are 18 and 13 points lower, respectively, for French persons with at least one immigrant parent from North Africa than for French persons . both of whose parents are French-born. . . Our study seeks to determine the share of these gaps that can be attributed to...

This paper explains differences in wages and hierarchical positions in France according to national origin. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey carried out in 2002. The business survey provides very reliable wage data which are matched to many individual-level variables...

This article provides an overview of the issue of ethnic differentials in wages and employment rates on the French labor market in a consistent empirical framework and with a single source of recent data. Wage differentials, even when they are high, are mainly due to differences in age and...

In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the period 1990 to 2000. This analysis is the first extensive study for this country. We construct a regional-level data set (for the 95 départements of metropolitan France) with...

[eng] This paper measures the effect of undergoing a retraining programme on finding a permanent job . It uses a generalised Tobit model with several endogenous selections . Retraining programmes increase the beneficiaries ’ likelihood of finding a permanent job by an average of 8 points ....

In this article, we estimate the effects of a French retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers by matching techniques. This program, called ‘Conventions de conversion’, was intended to improve re-employment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining...

[spa] Los determinantes económicos de la entrada en la función pública . . En los próximos años la función pública sufrirá unas jubilaciones masivas de ciertos de sus agentes. Es probable que deba hacer fuertes reclutamientos. Dentro de este contexto, es esencial tratar de comprender lo...