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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Bertrand, Marianne - 2001

Does entry regulation hinder job creation? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail industry, a sector that has experienced especially low rates of job creation over the last 25 years. Since the early 70s, the French government has required regional zoning board approval...

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Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

Abowd, John M. - 1999

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of …

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Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States

Abowd, John M. - 1997

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data for young people in France and the United States to investigate … States, and are mitigated by eligibility for special employment promotion contracts in France …

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The Costs of Hiring and Separations

Abowd, John M. - 1997

In this article, we estimate the costs of hiring, separation, and retirement of employees for a representative sample of French establishments in 1992. The estimates are computed using data from three sources: the Wage Structure Survey (ESS), the Workforce Movement Questionnaire (DMMO), and the...

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Internal and External Labor Markets : An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Abowd, John M. - 1997

France, we find that most of the firm-size wage effect and most of the inter-industry wage effect is due to person effects …

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The Entry and Exit of Workers and the Growth of Employment : An Analysis of French Establishments

Abowd, John M. - 1996

Our empirical analyses distinguish between flows of workers, directly measured, and job creation and destruction, again, directly measured. We use a representative sample of all French establishments for 1987 to 1990. Our most important findings are that (1) annual job creation can be...

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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France

Card, David - 1996

, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …

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High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms

Abowd, John M. - 1994

most important source of wage variation in France. Firm-effects, while important, are not as important as person …

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A Test of Negotiation and Incentive Compensation Models Using Longitudinal French Enterprise Data

Abowd, John M. - 1992

level agreements appear to implement incentive contracts. This is significant because in France a firm level agreement is …

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France …

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