French Abstract: Cet article vise à présenter et mettre en perspective les approches structurelles et non structurelles en économétrie de l'évaluation des politiques publiques. Si ces approches sont souvent opposées car correspondant à des démarches scientifiques différentes, elles se...

This paper studies the divergence/convergence process of European countries as regard the financing behavior of small and medium sized enterprises. Using a firm level and country representative survey, we construct country-time indicators of SMEs' use of three external financing sources: bank...

This paper examines empirically how industry-level wage floors are set in French industry-level wage agreements and how the national minimum wage (NMW) interacts with industry-level wage bargaining. For this, we use a unique data set containing about 48,000 occupation-specific wage floors, in...