Research

Peer-reviewed publications

Gobillon L., Solignac M. (2020), Homeownership of Immigrants in France: selection effects related to international migration flows, Journal of Economic Geography, 20(2), pp.355–396

Revised paper and online appendix

Research Briefing: PSE 5&5 (in English/in French), CNRS INSHS (in French)

Media Coverage: Le Monde (in French)

Presentation of the dataset (EDP/Permanent Demographic Sample): our review in Population (4/2015, Vol. 70, p. 867-870)

Solignac M. (2018), L'émigration des immigrés, une dimension oubliée de la mobilité géographique, Population, 73 (4), pp.693-718 / Immigrant Emigration: An Overlooked Dimension of Geographical Mobility, Population (English Edition), 73(4), pp.659-684

Original working paper (2016): halshs-01422323

Solignac M., Tô M. (2018), Do Workers Make Good Neighbours? The Impact of Local Employment on Young Male and Female Entrants to the Labour Market., Annals of Economics and Statistics, n°130, pp. 167-198. Open repository version

Guillot M., Khlat M., Elo I., Solignac M., Wallace M. (2018), Understanding Age Variations in the Migrant Mortality Advantage: An International Comparative Perspective, PLOS ONE 13(6): e0199669

Solignac M. & Tô M. (2016), Le niveau de chômage dans le voisinage affecte-t-il l'entrée sur le marché du travail ?, Revue Economique, n°3, vol.67, p.495-524. English full text article available on Cairn international. Media coverage (in French): Les Echos (Aug. 13, 2017).

Works in progress and Working papers

The Impact of the Salmon Bias on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data, with Guillot M., Khlat M., Elo I., and Gansey R.

The migrant mortality advantage (MMA) has been observed in many immigrant-receiving countries, but its underlying factors remain poorly understood. This paper examines the role of out-migration selection effects (the “salmon bias” hypothesis) in explaining the MMA, using a rich, unique data set from France in which individuals are followed worldwide (including when they leave the country) until they die. This data set, which involves individuals receiving a pension from France’s most important pension fund, provides a rare opportunity to directly observe out-migration selection effects and their impact on the migrant mortality advantage. It also contributes to the existing literature by examining the salmon bias in the European context, focusing on France, one of the major receiving countries in Europe. Preliminary results indicate a large amount of negative out-migration selection for foreign-born males in France.

Presented in 2018 at PAA, EAPS, and seminar "Premiers Pas" (Univ. Bordeaux, ISPED, IRDES, Bordeaux Population Health, CNRS UMR Passages)

Age Patterns, Timing, and Determinants of Remigration among Foreign-born Workers in France: Evidence from French Pension Data, with Gansey R., Guillot M., Khlat M., Elo I.

Accepted for presentation at the PAA 2019

Les disparités spatiales d'accès à l'autonomie précoce en France with Claire Kersuzan,

Second revision (2020)

Ubi lex distinguit, distinguere debemus, an economic approach to personal injury compensation

In most economic models of damage compensation, the indemnity is proportional to the fault and victims have to file the claim. Contrary to the tort law approach, a growing number of reparation mechanisms choose to ignore the fault (“no-fault law”) to compensate damages in their entirety. The Badinter law, which regulates the compensation of damages from traffic accidents in France, is a perfect example. One particular feature of this setting is that the party paying for the damages is likely to have imperfect information on the actual value of the loss and has to make an out-of-court offer. In turn, the victim has the option to accept the offer or to go to court. This study develops a model with these particular features based on the fact that unobserved component of the damages are correlated with observed ones. Estimation of the model is conducted on AGIRA files for all settlement between 2004 to 2006. We find a negative correlation between observed and unobserved dimensions of damages. The model explains the fact that compensations for each component of the damage is higher in out-of-court settlements, while the global indemnity is higher for in-court settlements and is mainly chosen by the most injured.

- French version: AMSE Working Paper 2014 09

Permanent Working Paper

Solignac M. (2016), L'émigration des immigrés, une dimension oubliée de la mobilité géographique, Working Paper halshs-01422323. Published version: Population, 2018/4, vol. 73, pp.693-718

Other publications

Observatoire des territoires (2019), Les mobilités résidentielles en France : tendances et impacts territoriaux, Rapport 2018 de l'Observatoire des territoires, contribution to the 2018 annual report of the Observatoire des territoires, Commissariat Général à l'égalité des territoires (CGET)

Gobillon L. & Solignac M. (2014), Les immigrés rattrapent-ils les natifs en termes d'accès à la propriété ?, Idées économiques et sociales, n°177, p.16-22 (for the draft version, see link)

A list of my publications and working papers can also be found on my Google Scholar profile and on my RePeC page