The paper deals with the analysis of labour force participation choices among parents who are eligible to the French parental allowance (APE). The literature survey indicates that most analyses focus on the very important impact of the 1994 reform : extending the allowance to second-rank...

This paper provides an overlapping generations model with both physical and human capital, in order to study the link between heterogeneity and growth. The study stresses out the flexibility of the OLG model to analyse the mutual dependence between the human capital distribution and the dynamics...

In this paper, we develop a model in which demographic decline is optimal when there is an exhaustible natural resource necessary in the production process. In this context, we study child rearing subsidies and show that they do not affect the rate of demographic decline. However, they induce a...