of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network … quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the …

Although widely regarded as a textbook case of a rigid economy, in the late 1990s France was able to increase …

differential in Brazilian and U.S. manufacturing coincides, and is considerably smaller than in France. Estimates are unaffected by … those of France. Worker characteristics have comparable explanatory power for manufacturing wage variability in the three …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … examples of high compliance exert no influence; (iv) tax evasion is more frequent in France and the Netherlands; Walloons evade …

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … construction sector triggered by fast rising property prices hindered France to meet world export demand vis-à-vis its products … experienced a marked decline in their export performance and sustained real-estate boom after 2000. -- OECD ; France …