In this paper, we analyse the changes in the risks of involuntary job loss in France between 1982 and 2000. Our analysis suggests that these risks are structurally higher in the 1990s than they were in the 1980s for both high and low-seniority workers.

In this paper, we analyze the changes in the risks of involuntary job loss in France between 1982 and 2000. We find that these risks are higher in the 1990s than they were in the 1980s, for both educated and non-educated workers, high-seniority and low-seniority workers. The decline in job...

This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset. We develop an identification strategy that relies on one specific feature of the French labour laws. They stipulate that firms, when firing workers, must include as one of their...

In this Paper, we analyse the changes in the risks of involuntary job loss in France between 1982 and 2002. We find that these risks are higher in the 1990s than they were in the 1980s. We develop an econometric analysis to separate the effects of institutional changes from the effects of new...

This study evaluates the impact of an increase in childcare subsidies on the use of paid childcare and the participation rate of mothers of preschool children. We use a natural experiment provided by the PAJE, a French reform in family allowances introduced in 2004. This reform temporarily...

This study evaluates the impact of fuel prices on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly registration of new private cars in France from 2003 to 2007. Detailed information on the car holder enables us to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers. We...

This paper provides new empirical assessment on the long-term e ciency of locally-targeted tax incentives in revitalizing distressed areas, and on the impact on local population. We focus on the rst generation of the French \Enterprise Zone" initiative, implemented in 1997 in France. On the...