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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs: females trapped at the bottom of the ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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Migrations et discriminations professionnelles dans la province du Guangdong

Batisse, Cécile; Zhu, Nong - HAL - 2011

Cet article étudie l'insertion de ces migrants ruraux sur le marché du travail de la province du Guangdong à partir d'une base de données originales issues d'une enquête sur les paysans-ouvriers (ming gong), réalisée en 2006. A partir de modèles de durée, nous portons une attention...

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Finance and the rise in inequalities in France

Godechot, Olivier - HAL - 2011

Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in … the tremendous increase in top financial wages. …

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Inter-firm dependency and employment inequalities : Theoretical hypotheses and empirical tests

Perraudin, Corinne; Petit, Héloïse; Thèvenot, Nadine; … - HAL - 2009

This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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Working in family firms: less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data

Bassanini, Andrea; Breda, Thomas; Caroli, Eve; … - HAL - 2010

establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage …

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Are workers close to cities paid higher non-agricultural wages in rural China?

Duvivier, Chloe; Renard, Mary-Françoise; Li, Shi - HAL - 2012

In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than … impact. Distance always has a negative impact on wages but the effect is more detrimental, the closer the village is to the … urban center. We also find evidence of urban hierarchy effects: workers living close to bigger cities are paid higher wages …

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Improving skills for more and better jobs?

Bassanini, Andrea - HAL - 2004

I use data from the ECHP to assess the effects of adult training on individual labour market performance. Although I find that employee training has a clear impact on wage growth only in the case of young or highly educated employees, it appears to have a stronger impact on employment security...

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Does Home ownership Harm Labour Market Performances? A Survey

Havet, Nathalie; Penot, Alexis - HAL - 2010

While many countries have implemented various incentives to promote homeownership, this paper investigates the literature on the relationship between this residential status and the labour market performances. Since the rather negative original contribution by Oswald (1996), the literature has...

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ESTIMATING AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES WITH HISTORY, GEOLOGY, AND WORKER EFFECTS

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - HAL - 2008

Does productivity increase with density? We revisit the issue usingFrench wage and TFP data. To deal with the ‘endogenous quantity of labour' bias (i.e., urban agglomeration is consequence of high local productivity rather than a cause), we take an instrumental variable approach and introduce...

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