[fre] La comparaison des institutions du marché du travail dans les pays de l’Union européenne fait ressortir une grande diversité de fonctionnement et de régulation. Celle-ci constitue une source potentielle de divergence entre pays européens. À ce titre, elle pourrait être un obstacle...

[fre] Les institutions et le fonctionnement des marchés du travail en Europe varient significativement d'un pays à l'autre. De même, nombre d'études économétriques soulignent l'hétérogénéité des comportements de fixations des salaires et de demande d'emplois. Il reste toutefois à...

An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to previous attempts of gradual reforms, which were never fully implemented, the strategy has been to create a big bang in the health sector, making changes essentially irreversible....

The growth of potential GDP in Mexico is not fast enough to narrow the income gap with other OECD countries at a sufficient pace. The persistent weakness in human capital development contributes to this situation. In particular, Mexicans spend comparatively few years in formal education, and the...

[eng] The capital asset pricing model for consumption cannot explain observed equity premiums unless disproportionate risk aversion coefficients are used. The equity premium puzzle has been attributed in particular to the time-separability of consumer preferences. This paper investigates...

[fre] Évolutions démographiques et marché du travail: des liens complexes parfois contradictoires . . Les perspectives d’évolution de la population totale, de la population active et de leurs structures par âge sont alternativement sources d’inquiétude ou d’optimisme: craintes pour...

[eng] Forecasts for the French economy in 1994-2000 Loic Cadiou, Gerard Cornilleau, Catherine Mathieu France's growth rate should reach 3.5 % in 1995. Will this recovery be long-lasting ? In order to explore all the possibilites, two scenarios have been considered : the first one is...

[eng] The Puzzle of lost Consumption Loic Cadiou The procyclical movement of the household savings rate has reinfor- ced the slowdown of the French economy from 1990 to 1993. This movement was both substantial and unexpected, since households' beha- viour usually smoothes domestic demand...