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Thomas Breda

Paris School of Economics, and CNRS, France, and IZA, Germany

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Author

Current position

Associate member, Paris School of Economics, France

Research interest

Labor economics, education, employment relations

Website

http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.com/breda-thomas/index_en.html

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Expert in the evaluation committee of the French labor market reforms; Expert in the national committee in charge of gender equality at work

Past positions

Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Economic Performance (LSE) (2011–2013)

Qualifications

PhD, Paris School of Economics, 2011

Selected publications

  • “Contribution ceilings and the incidence of payroll taxes.” De Economist 165:2 (2017): 129–140 (with F. Alvaredo, B. Roantree, and E. Saez).

  • “Incidence and behavioural response to social security contributions: An analysis of kink points in France.” De Economist 165:2 (2017): 141–163 (with A. Bozio and J. Grenet).

  • “Teaching accreditation exams reveal grading biases favor women in male-dominated disciplines in France.” Science 353:6298 (2016): 474–478 (with M. Hillion).

  • “Firms’ rents, workers’ bargaining power and the union wage premium in France.” The Economic Journal 125 (2015): 1616–1652.

  • “Professors in core science are not always biased against women: Evidence from France.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7:4 (2015): 53–75 (with S. Thierry Ly).

article(s)

  • Working in family firms

    Family firms offer higher job security but lower wages than other firms

    Thomas Breda, April 2018
    Family firms are ubiquitous in most countries. The differences in objectives, governance, and management styles between those firms and their non-family counterparts have several implications for the workforce, which scholars have only recently started to investigate. Family firms offer greater job security, employ different management practices, have a comparative advantage to avoid conflicts when employment relations are more hostile, and provide insurance to workers through implicit contracts when labor market regulation is limited. But all this also comes at a cost.
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