The first pillars of pension plans in the various European countries widely differ in their contribution rates and intra-generational redistribution. What would be the impact of these differences if EU citizens had a free access to the various systems? This paper aims to highlight some basic...

We present a model of female participation in the labor force, which deals with part time work and the minimum wage. The model is estimated on the French employment survey of 1997. We use it to compare various incentive schemes to work: the ?allocation compensatoire de revenu??, the negative...