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Inequality and earnings dynamics in France : national policies and local consequences
Kramarz, Francis; Nimier-David, Elio; Delemotte, Thomas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1527-1591
This paper provides new stylized facts about labor earnings inequality and dynamics in France for the period 1991 …-2016. Using linked employer-employee data, we show that (i) labor inequality in France is low compared to other developed … much higher growth, (iv) inequality between and within cohorts follow the same U‐shaped pattern as global inequality: it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306284
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Working in family firms : less paid but more secure? ; evidence from French matched employer-employee data
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - 2011
We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310986
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The tail of two countries : minimum wages and employment in France and the United States
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N.; … - 2000
We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339095
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The Tail of Two Countries : Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States
Kramarz, Francis; Abowd, John M.; Margolis, David N.; … - 2021
We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321232
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The impact of differential payroll tax subsidies on minimum wage employment
Philippon, Thomas; Kramarz, Francis - 2000
In this article, we study the impact of changes of total labor costs on employment of low-wage workers in France in a period, 1990 to 1998, that saw sudden and large changes in these costs. We use longitudinal data from the French Labor Force survey ("enquête emploi") in order to understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339081
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Employed 40 hours or not-employed 39 : lessons from the 1982 mandatory reduction of the workweek
Crépon, Bruno; Kramarz, Francis - 2002
We use longitudinal individual wage, hours, and employment data to investigate the effect of the February 1, 1982 mandatory reduction of weekly working hours in France. Just after François Mitterrand's election in May 1981, the government decided to increase the minimum wage by 5%. Then, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405795
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Persistent inter‐industry wage differences : rent sharing and opportunity costs
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Lengermann, Paul … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-25
We reconsider the potential for explaining inter-industry wage differences by decomposing those differences into parts due to individual and employer heterogeneity, respectively. Using longitudinally linked employer-employee data, we estimate the model for the United States and France. The part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725326
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The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)
Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006
We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … differences between the two countries relate to firm-to-firm mobility. Using a model of Burdett and Coles (2003), we explain the … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274184
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Labor market concentration and stayers' wages: evidence from France
Bassanini, Andrea; Batut, Cyprien; Caroli, Eve - 2021
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative data for France, we show that the elasticity of stayers' wages to labor market concentration ranges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745297
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Labor Market Concentration and Stayers' Wages : Evidence from France
Bassanini, Andrea; Batut, Cyprien; Caroli, Eve - 2020
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers’ wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who remain employed in the same firm for at least two consecutive years. Using administrative data for France, we show that the elasticity of stayers’ wages to labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102700