This paper evaluates the effect of enterprise zones on their residents. Using the French case, it provides results on a dimension that has not been much studied but is quite crucial for understanding the mechanisms at play : the social composition of the zones. It also provides new results for...

This paper evaluates the effect of the French enterprise zone program on residents of these deprived neighborhoods. A second contribution is the evaluation of the composition effects in the zones and of externalities on the neighbors of the enterprise zones. The third contribution is the...

This paper relates changes in the high-skilled / medium-skilled relative wage of full-time male wage-earners in France with changes in supply and skill-biased demand shifts, including skill-biased technical change (SBTC). Using annual employer-employee administrative data matched with Census...

Le salaire est une composante essentielle du niveau de vie. Son montant présente pour l'immense majorité des travailleurs un enjeu considérable. Comment les différents salariés perçoivent-ils à la fois le salaire qu'ils touchent et les écarts qui le séparent de celui des autres ?...

The authors study the effect of new technologies on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on individuals and on their firms. As in the United States, they show that computer users are better paid than nonusers (15-20 percent more). But these workers were already better...

We study the impact of new technologies (NT) on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on individuals and on their firms. As found in the United States (Krueger (1993)), we show that computer users are better paid than non-users (between 15% and 20% more). But we also show...

[eng] 1954-1982: the disruption of the social landscape - The former code of socio-professional categories endured thirty years, thirty years in the course of which it permitted the measurement of disruptions which have marked the social landscape of the country. 1954: more than one worker out...

[fre] Salaires et conditions de travail . Un ouvrier qui est exposé au froid et qui porte des charges lourdes gagnera entre 4 % et 5 % de moins qu'un ouvrier non soumis à ces contraintes. En revanche, le travail de nuit comme le travail en 3x8 s'accompagne de primes. Les théories du marché...

[spa] Ascendencia paterna, ascendencia materna : un papel semejante en la herencia social - Para poder establecer en la posición social de cada persona la parte correspondiente a la «herencia » paterna o a la materna, es preciso pasar por los nombres, es decir por los dos abuelos. Se puede...