Clémence Berson
Advisor
Clémence Berson is an economist and senior researcher in the Structural Policies Analysis Division in the Directorate General Statistics, Economics and International. Her studies focus on the labour market and its reforms and she is affiliated to Paris 1 University. Before joining the central bank, she was an economist at the French Treasury.
Current Position
- Advisor
Previous Position
- Senior economist and research fellow, Supply side, Labour and Surveillance Division, DG-Economics, European Central Bank (2022-2025)
- Advisor to the General Director of Statistics, Research and International Relations, Banque de France (2021-2022)
- Senior economist and research fellow, Division of structural policy analyses, Banque de France (2018-2021)
- Economist and research fellow, Division of economic diagnosis, Banque de France (2018)
- Visiting, Banca d’Italia (2018)
- Economist and research fellow, Division of structural policy analyses, Banque de France (2014-2018)
- Economist at the French Treasury (2012-2014),
- Researcher at Centre d’étude de l’emploi (2011-2012).
Diplomas
- PhD in Economics, Paris 1 University - Paris School of Economics
- M2R in Econometrics, Paris 1 University - Paris School of Economics
- M1 in Business, option finance, Paris XII University
- École Normale Supérieure of Cachan in Economics and Business
Research Interest
Labour economics, competition
Contact
- clemence.berson@banque-france.fr
- +33 (0)1 42 92 96 94
Academic Publications
Articles
- Outsourcing human resources as a solution to prevent discrimination: Evidence from a correspondence study
with M. Laouenan and E. Valat, in Labour Economics, 2020, vol. 64 - Asymmetric wage adjustment and employment in European firms with P. Marotzke, R. Anderton, A. Bairrao, P. Thoth, in The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, June 2020, vol. 20(2), pages 1-25
- Non-base wage components as a source of wage adaptability to shocks: Evidence from European firms, 2010-2013
with J. Babecky, L. Fadejeva, A. Lamo, P. Marotzke, F. Martins and P. Strzelecki, in IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 8:1 - Fixed-term contracts and labor market duality in France in De Economist, December 2018, vol. 166 (4), pp. 455-476.
- Une simulation sur un modèle d’appariement : l’impact de l’article 4 de l’ANI de 2013 sur la segmentation du marché du travail with N. Ferrari, in Economie et Prévision, 2017, n°211-212, pp. 115-137
- Local labor markets and taste-based discrimination, dans IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, vol. 5, n°1, pp. 1-21.
- Private vs Public Sector Wage Gap: Does Origin Matter?, dans Metroeconomica, à paraître.
- Financial incentives and labour market duality (2015), avec N. Ferrari, Labour Economics, Décembre 2015, vol. 37, pp.77-92.
- Testing : la difficulté de l'interprétation de la discrimination à l'embauche, dans Travail et Emploi, Juillet septembre 2013, n°135, pp.27-40.
- Concurrence imparfaite et discrimination sur le marché du travail, dans Revue Économique, Mai 2011, vol.62(3), pp.409-417.
Other issues
- And yet we move: evidence on job-to-job transitions in the euro area with A. Arlia and C. Consolo, in ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 7, 2025
- What does increasing competition from China mean for euro area employment? with C. Foroni, V. Gunnella and L. Lebastard, in ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 5, 2025
- Who wants to work more? Revisiting the decline in average hours worked with M. Weissler, in ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 3, 2025
- The role of demographics in recent developments of the unemployment rate with A. Dias da Silva and M. Weissler, in ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 1, 2025
- Explaining the resilience of the euro area labour market between 2022 an 2024 with V. Botelho, A. Dias da Silva, C. Foroni, M. Mohr, C. Schroeder and M. Weissler in ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 8, 2024
- Centraliser le recrutement, un moyen efficace de prévention des discriminations ? with M. Laouenan and E. Valat LIEPP Policy brief #49, 2021
- Shocks and wage adjustments, Quarterly selection of article in Banque de France bulletin, No. 231, 2020
- Wage bargaining in Europe: A wide range of increasingly decentralised models since the crisis with E. Jousselin, Quarterly selection of articles in Banque de France bulletin, No. 217, Summer 2018
- Appréhender les discriminations avec la méthode du testing Chroniques du CNIS : La mesure des discriminations dans l'emploi, mars 2018, p.5-6.
- Does the Phillips curve still exist? with L. de Charsonville, P. Diev, V. Faubert, L. Ferrara, S. Guilloux-Nefussi , Y. Kalantzis, A. Lalliard, J. Matheron and M. Mogliani Rue de la Banque, Banque de France, issue 56, february 2018
- What policy to reduce labour market segmentation? with N. Ferrari Rue de la Banque, No. 35, Décembre 2016
- Les réformes des marchés du travail en Europe with M-E. de la Serve Futuribles, 29 mars 2016
Others
- The gender gap at work is closing – but slowly with V. Botelho, L. Guirola, L. Hospido, F. Kuik, C. Nickel and M. Rojo Lopez Blog post, The ECB blog, 2025
- Record labour participation: workforce gets older, better educated and more female with V. Botelho Blog post, The ECB blog, 2023
- Job-to-job flows and wage dynamics with E. Busson Blog post, Bloc-note éco, 2023
- Women and labour during the Covid-19 crisis Blog post, Bloc-note éco, 2021
- Short-time work: a useful tool in times of crisis with H. Camatte and S. Nevoux Blog post, Bloc-note éco, 2020
- Emplois pérennes : fin de partie ? Entendez-vous l'éco, France Culture, 17/12/2019 Podcast
- Where is euro area inflation in relation to the “Phillips cone”? with H. Camatte, A. Lalliard and J. Leroux Blog post, Bloc-note éco, 2019
- Réduire la dualité du marché du travail pour réduire la précarité Tribune, Relais d'Opinion, mars 2019
- The duality of the French labor market Blog post, Bloc-note éco, 2018