Research – Roland Rathelot

Work in progress:

Ethnic Discrimination on an Online Marketplace of Vacation Rentals, with Morgane Laouenan. Latest version, R&R American Economic Journal, Applied Economics
Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India, with Lucie Gadenne and Tushar Nandi. Latest version
Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis, with Lena Hensvik and Thomas Le Barbanchon. CEPR Discussion Paper
Which jobs are done from home? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey, with Lena Hensvik and Thomas Le Barbanchon. CEPR Discussion Paper
Measuring Speech Polarization: Identification and Estimation, with Xavier d’Haultfoeuille and Lucas Girard.
How Biased are Observational Methods in Practice? Accumulating Evidence Using Randomised Controlled Trials with Imperfect Compliance, with David Bernard, Gharad Bryan, Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, Jon de Quidt, Greg Fischer, and Jasmin Fliegner

Publications:

Gender Differences in Job Search: Trading off Commute Against Wage, with Thomas Le Barbanchon and Alexandra Roulet, Quarterly Journal of Economics, accepted
segregsmall: A command to estimate segregation in the presence of small units, with Xavier d’Haultfoeuille and Lucas Girard. Stata Journal, accepted. Package github folder.
Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages: Evidence from Administrative Data, with Thomas Le Barbanchon and Alexandra Roulet, Journal of Public Economics, 171, pp. 1-17, March 2019
Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search, with Ioana Marinescu, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 10(3), pp. 42-70, July 2018
Measuring Segregation on Small Units: A Partial Identification Analysis, with Xavier d’Haultfoeuille, Quantitative Economics,
8(1), pp. 39-73, March 2017
The Heterogeneity of Ethnic Unemployment Gaps, with Romain Aeberhardt and Elise Coudin, Journal of Population Economics, 30(1), pp. 307-337, January 2017
For Whom are Permanent Jobs Off Limits? A Markov-Chain-Based Analysis of Individual Labor Market Dynamics, with Magali Beffy and Elise Coudin, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 115-116, pp. 315-342, December 2014
Ethnic Differentials on the Labor Market in the Presence of Asymmetric Spatial Sorting: Set Identification and Estimation, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 48(1), pp. 154-167, September 2014
Local Ethnic Composition and Natives’ and Immigrants’ Geographic Mobility in France, 1982-1999, with Mirna Safi, American Sociological Review, 79(1), pp. 17-42, February 2014
Do Labor Market Policies have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment, with Bruno Crépon, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand, and Philippe Zamora, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(2), pp. 531-580, May 2013
Place-based Tax Exemptions and Displacement Effects: An Evaluation of the Zones Franches Urbaines Program, with Pauline Givord and Patrick Sillard, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 43(1), pp. 151-163, January 2013
Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France, with Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz and Mirna Safi, International Journal of Manpower, 34(1), pp. 56-69, January 2013
Measuring Segregation when Units are Small: A Parametric Approach, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 30(4), pp.546-553, October 2012
Wages and Employment of Second-Generation Immigrants in France, with Romain Aeberhardt, Denis Fougère, and Julien Pouget, Journal of Population Economics, 23(3), pp 881-905, June 2010
The Importance of Local Corporate Taxes in Business Location Decisions: Evidence from French micro data, with Patrick Sillard, The Economic Journal, 118(527), pp 499-514, March 2008

Publications in French peer-reviewed journals:

Les difficultés scolaires et professionnelles des jeunes issus de l’immigration : effet de l’origine ou effets geographiques ? with Romain Aeberhardt and Mirna Safi, Population, 70(3), pp.599-636, November 2015.
Expérimentation contrôlée contre appariement : le cas d’un dispositif d’accompagnement de jeunes diplômés demandeurs d’emploi, with Marianne Bléhaut, Economie et Prévision, 204-205(1), pp.163-181, December 2014.
Introduction – Trois approches de la discrimination : évaluations indirectes, expérimentation, discriminations ressenties, with Eric Delattre, Noam Léandri and Dominique Meurs, Economie et Statistique, 464-465-466, pp. 7-13, April 2014.
Les différences liées à l’origine nationale sur le marché du travail français, with Romain Aeberhardt, Revue Française d’Economie, 28(1), pp. 43-71, July 2013.
L’accompagnement personnalisé des demandeurs d’emploi : les enseignements de trois expériences contrôlées menées en France, with Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand, Thierry Kamionka, Laurent Lequien, et Philippe Zamora, Revue Française d’Economie, 28(1), pp. 123-158, July 2013.
Commentaire : Les méthodes de testing permettent-elles d’identifier et de mesurer l’ampleur des discriminations ? with Romain Aeberhardt and Denis Fougère, Economie et Statistique, 447, pp 97-101, July 2012
L’emploi et les salaires des enfants d’immigrés, with Romain Aeberhardt, Denis Fougère and Julien Pouget, Economie et Statistique, 433-434, pp 31-46, January 2011
Zones Franches Urbaines : quels effets sur l’emploi salarié et les créations d’établissements ? with Patrick Sillard, Economie et Statistique, 415-416, pp 81-96, March 2009
Ralentissement démographique et chômage : Quels enseignements des modèles macroéconomiques ? with Jean-François Ouvrard and Olivier Simon, Revue Economique, 59(5), pp 973-993, September 2008

Institutional publications, policy briefs and other contributions (in English or French):

How are workers searching for jobs during the COVID-19 crisis?, with Lena Hensvik and Thomas Le Barbanchon, CAGE Policy Briefing no. 26, May 2020.
Mismatch Unemployment And The Geography Of Job Search, with Ioana Marinescu, in V Troeger (ed.) Which Way Now? Economic policy after a decade of upheaval, CAGE Policy Report. CAGE-Social Market Foundation, pp. 80-84, February 2019
Rethinking the Skills Gap, with Thijs van Rens, in V Troeger (ed.) Which Way Now? Economic policy after a decade of upheaval, CAGE Policy Report. CAGE-Social Market Foundation, pp. 85-92, February 2019
Rethinking the Skills Gap, with Thijs van Rens, IZA World of Labor, October 2017
Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages, with Thomas Le Barbanchon and Alexandra Roulet, VoxEU column, 27 June 2017
Faut-il accompagner davantage les jeunes à la recherche d’un contrat d’apprentissage ? Les enseignements de l’évaluation d’un programme expérimental, with Bruno Crépon, Thomas Le Barbanchon, Helene Naegele, Elise Pesonel, and Philippe Zamora, DARES Analyses, 2017-036, May 2017
Let’s Stay Together? Combating discrimination on Airbnb, with Morgane Laouénan, CAGE-SMF Policy Brief, 4 December 2016
Évaluation d’un programme visant à améliorer l’insertion professionnelle des étudiants boursiers inscrits en Master 2, with Luc Behaghel, Julien Grenet and Elise Pesonel, Rapport final pour le Fonds d’Expérimentation pour la Jeunesse, March 2014
Job placement and displacement: Evidence from a randomised experiment, with Bruno Crépon, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand and Philippe Zamora, VoxEU column, 24 April 2013; JPAL Briefcase, April 2013
Accompagnement des jeunes diplômés demandeurs d’emploi par des opérateurs privés de placement : les enseignements d’une évaluation, with Bruno Crépon, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand and Philippe Zamora, DARES Analyses, 2011-094, 2011
Les écarts de taux d’emploi selon l’origine des parents : comment varient-ils avec l’âge et le diplôme ? with Romain Aeberhardt and Elise Coudin, France Portrait Social, ed. Insee, pp. 149-166, 2010
L’apport des méthodes à noyaux pour mesurer la concentration géographique : Application à la concentration des immigrés en France de 1968 à 1999, with Patrick Sillard, Document de Travail INSEE G2010/11, 2010
Les salariés français descendant d’immigrés : salaires et profil professionnel dans les entreprises de 10 salariés ou plus en 2006, with Lara Muller, Premières Synthèses DARES, 2010-007, 2010
Une autre utilisation des aires de l’enquête Emploi : l’étude des écarts d’emploi et de salaire selon l’origine et le quartier de résidence, Courrier des Statistiques, 129, 2010
L’apprentissage, entre formation et insertion professionnelles, with Dominique Abriac and Ruby Sanchez, in Formations et Emploi, ed. Insee, pp 57-74, 2009
Flux de main d’oeuvre, flux d’emploi et internationalisation, with Muriel Barlet, Didier Blanchet, Laure Crusson, Pauline Givord, Claude Picart and Patrick Sillard, in L’Economie Française, Comptes et dossiers, ed. Insee, pp. 108-131, 2007