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Opportunity Costs of Having a Child, Financial Constraints and Fertility.

Cette, G.; Dromel, N.; Méda, D. - Banque de France - 2005

simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the … of their working schedule on the number of children they intend to have. The statistical analysis, based on a "ceteris …

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Régime de retraite et chute de la natalité : évolution des moeurs ou arbitrage micro-économique ?

Loupias, C.; Wigniolle, B. - Banque de France - 2004

In this paper, we develop an overlapping generations model where fertility is endogenous. The utility of the parents is … a function of the number of their children, and each child implies two types of fixed costs: the financial cost and the … cost in terms of time. A "pay-as-you-go" pension scheme introduces an externality in that the number of children will be …

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Trends in "structural" productivity levels in the major industrialized countries.

Bourlès, R.; Cette, G. - Banque de France - 2006

Estimating returns to hours worked and the employment rate provides us with an original interpretation of changes in US productivity and other industrialized countries' catch-up with US productivity levels over recent decades.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082519

Does ICT remain a powerful engine of growth?

Cette, G. - Banque de France - 2014

ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in ICT performances will probably be positively impacted,...

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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century.

Cette, G.; Kocoglu, Y.; Mairesse, J. - Banque de France - 2010

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy....

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth.

Aghion, Ph.; Askenazy, Ph.; Bourlès, R.; Cette, G.; … - Banque de France - 2009

This paper investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...

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A comparison of Structural Productivity Levels in the Major Industrialised Countries.

Bourlès, R.; Cette, G. - Banque de France - 2005

Hourly labour productivity levels in a number of European countries are thought to be very close to, or possibly even higher than the level 'observed' in the United States. At the same time, however, there are big differentials between hours worked and/or employment rates in these countries and...

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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology, and competition: evidence from France.

Chevalier, P-A.; Lecat, R.; Oulton, N. - Banque de France - 2009

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore...

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Wage and Productivity differentials in Japan. The Role of Labor Market Mechanisms.

Kalantzis, Y.; Kambayashi, R.; Lechevalier, S. - Banque de France - 2012

This paper aims at explaining two stylized facts of the Lost Decade in Japan: rising wage inequalities and increasing firm-level productivity differentials. We build a model where firms can choose between efficiency wages with endogenous effort and competitive wages, and show that it can...

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The decreasing returns on working time: An empirical analysis on panel country data

Cette, G.; Chang, S.; Konte, M. - Banque de France - 2011

An empirical analysis is conducted on two panels of 18 OECD countries to test whether the elasticity of hourly productivity to working time is negative and decreasing with working time itself. If so, the decreasing returns on working time could be indicative of a fatigue effect that increases...

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