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Philippe Askenazy

CNRS-Centre Maurice Halbwachs, and ENS, France, and IZA, Germany

To bridge the gap between academics and policymakers, and with citizens generally, is a growing challenge in a post-truth age. In this perspective, IZA World of Labor is an exciting initiative

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Senior Researcher, CNRS-Centre Maurice Halbwachs; Associate Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

Research interest

Industrial relations, technological and organizational innovations, working conditions, occupational safety and health, labor markets

Website

https://www.cmh.ens.fr/author/philippe-askenazy/

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Member of the French monitoring committee of the state aids to firms, 2014–2017; Member of the Council of Economic Analysis, French Prime Minister, 2012–2015

Past positions

Deputy-Director of the CEPREMAP, 2005–2015; Junior Researcher, CNRS, 1999–2007; Assistant Professor, Ecole Nationale d’Administration, 2002–2005

Qualifications

PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, 1999

Selected publications

  • "Rent-sharing and workers’ bargaining power: An empirical cross-country/cross-industry panel analysis." Scandinavian Journal of Economics (Forthcoming) (with G. Cette and P. Maarek).

  • Productivity Puzzles Across Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 (editor with L. Bellmann, A. Bryson, and E. Moreno Galbis).

  • “Work organisation and human resource management: Does context matter?” In: Amosse, T., A. Bryson, J. Forth, and H. Petit (eds). Comparative Workplace Employment Relations. An Analysis of Practice in Britain and France. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016; pp. 141–177 (with J. Forth).

  • “Innovation and advertising: Theory and evidence.” Economics of Innovation and New Technology 25:1 (2016) 33–56 (with T. Breda and D. Irac).

  • "Financial constraints and foreign market entries or exits: Firm-level evidence from France." Review of World Economics 151:2 (2016): 231–253 (with A. Caldera, G. Gaulier, and D. Irac).

article(s)

  • The transformations of the French labor market, 2000–2021 Updated

    The workforce is now much better educated, but crises have magnified unemployment, underemployment, and low-income work

    Philippe Askenazy, February 2022
    France has the second largest population of countries in the EU. Since 2000, the French labor market has undergone substantial changes resulting from striking trends, some of which were catalyzed by the Great Recession and the Covid-19 crisis. The most interesting of these changes have been the massive improvement in the education of the labor force (especially of women), the resilience of employment during recessions, and the dramatic emergence of very-short-term employment contracts (less than a week) and low-income independent contractors, which together have fueled earnings inequality.
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