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Title: Breaking Down Married Female Non-Employment in France

Author(s): Guy Laroque and Bernard Salanié

Publication Date: September 1999

Keyword(s): Female Labour Supply and Minimum Wage

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the causes of unemployment empirically, using individual data and an approach which refines that of Meyer and Wise. Using the French 1997 Labour Survey data, we decompose non-employment of married women into three components: voluntary, classical (due to the minimum wage) and 'other' (a residual category). We find that the minimum wage explains close to 15% of non-employment for these women and that the disincentive effects of some welfare policy measures may be large. Our approach also allows us to evaluate various labour and welfare policy experiments in their effects on participation and employment.

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Laroque, G and Salanié, B. 1999. 'Breaking Down Married Female Non-Employment in France'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2239