The numerous analogies in the literature on economics between monetary theory and education policy lead us to proposing a new model inspired by the work of Dornbusch (1976) and transposed to a context of inflation of qualifications.

This paper proposes a new statistical measure of the overeducation phenomenon. From Stochastic Production Frontiers (SPF), we use e¢ ciency score between schooling and earning to assess worker mismatches. Based on the French case, our measure reveals an overestimation of the overeducation...

L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier l’évolution, sur longue période, des effectifs scolarisés français. Au cours du XIXe et XXe siècle, le développement du système éducatif s’est effectué non pas linéairement mais de manière convulsive. Partant de là, nous choisissons...

Dans la littérature économique, les nombreuses analogies entre la théorie monétaire et la politique éducative nous conduisent à transposer le modèle de Dornbusch (1976) à un contexte d’inflation des diplômes. En supposant les compétences requises pour l’emploi rigides à court...

Ce numéro regroupe une sélection de sept communications sur les près de cinquante présentées lors du colloque 2012 de la Fédération de Recherche " Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques " (FR 3435 - CNRS) qui s'est déroulé à Caen les 14 et 15 juin. Ce colloque était plus...

This paper presents a simultaneously study of the impact of gender and localization inequalities on the earnings of under-graduates. Using multilevel modeling, the framework draws both individual-level (i.e., pertaining to the individual elements of groups) and aggregate-level (i.e., pertaining...

This paper investigates the effect of inter-firm and intra-firm spillovers on the productivity of firms, using French data. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator (LPI) is used to estimate the productivity and to break it down into several components (e.g. efficiency, biased technical progress,...

Using a sample of 46,000 EU firms from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the drivers of innovation adoption. In contrast to most empirical studies on innovation diffusion in which a specific technology is analyzed, this study covers several countries and industries in the...

This paper investigates the effect of inter-firm and intra-firm spillovers on the productivity of firms, using French data. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator (LPI) is used to estimate the productivity and to break it down into several components (e.g. efficiency, biased technical progress,...