Francis Kramarz

High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers and over 500,000 employing firms. Real total annual compensation per worker is decom...

The Entry and Exit of Workers and the Growth of Employment

An Analysis of French Establishments

Our empirical analyses distinguish between flows of workers, directly measured, and job creation and destruction, again, directly measured. We use a r...

Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

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 ...

The Impact of Differential Payroll Tax Subsidies on Minimum Wage Employment

Paper examines the impact of changes of total labour costs on employment of low-wage workers in France in a period 1980 to 1990, that saw steady incre...

The Costs of Hiring and Separations

In this article, we estimate the costs of hiring, separation, and retirement of employees for a representative sample of French establishments in 1992...

Within-firm Seniority Structure and Firm Performance

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Volatility in the Small and in the Large

The Lack of Diversification in International Trade

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