 The (Unexpected) Structure of Rents" on the French and British Labour MarketsAndrew Clark and Claudia Senik () Post-Print from HAL Abstract: This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps surprisingly, wage rents are typical of the British public sector and permanent contracts, but not of their French counterparts. In France, such rents are found in full-time, rather than part-time jobs. Hence, the data provide little support for the usual a priori that the French labour market is structured along insider-outsider model lines, whereby wage rents are captured by the insiders of the public sector to the detriment of the private sector. However, they do suggest that part-time employment is involuntary to a far greater extent in France than in Great Britain. Keywords: Job satisfaction; Wages; Self-employment; Public sector; Permanent; Full-time; Rents (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), pp.180-196. ⟨10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.010⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00754158 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.010 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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