Séance du séminaire commun CES-ENS Cachan et RITM-UPSud le jeudi 2 octobre 2014 de 14h à 15h30 à Sceaux (adresse exacte ci-dessous).
Nous aurons le plaisir de recevoir Claire Lelarge qui présentera “Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France”, avec L. Garicano (LSE-CEP), J. Van Reenen (LSE-CEP).
Abstract: We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees. Using data on the population of firms between 2002 and 2007 period, we structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions. With flexible wages, the deadweight loss of the regulation is below 1% of GDP, but when wages are downwardly rigid welfare losses exceed 5%. We also show, regardless of wage flexibility, that the main losers from the regulation are workers (and to a lesser extent large firms) and the main winners are small firms.
Lieu du séminaire:
Université Paris Sud – Faculté Jean Monnet
Salle B105
Bâtiment B – 1er étage
54, Boulevard Desgranges , Sceaux
RER B Station Robinson
Le programme du séminaire pour l’année 2014-2015 est disponible ici
Pour vous rendre à la Faculté Jean Monnet, consultez le lien ci-joint : http://www.jm.u-psud.fr/fr/la_faculte2/venir_a_la_faculte.html
Les organisateurs
Nathalie Etchart-Vincent
José de Sousa
Thomas Vendryes