Over the 1967-2015 period, net wage inequality has decreased in France by 25%, in contrast to the significant increase … the same period. We show that, (a) standard demand-side explanations for the rise in inequality apply in France when …

Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are … particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the acceleration of productivity during the previous … to have turned productivity more sensitive to the business cycle (and especially to the fall of stock markets). …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference …-in-differences" framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …

regulation and labour market rigidity seems particularly substantial. -- Productivity ; growth ; regulations ; market rigidities …

unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …