This study compares the use of flexible working patterns in four European countries. In particular, working patterns that lead to a decoupling of working time and operating time are considered. The analysis is based on logistical regressions performed on individual data from the 2003 European...

This paper focuses on child renunciations factors, investigating the answers of nearly 1000 employees to a 2003 IPSOS-Chronopost survey. Numerous variables are taken into account simultaneously, evaluating their ??caeteris paribus?? influence through logistic models estimations. In a nutshell,...

Contrary to most European countries, indexation rules of the French minimum wage are very precise. However, three possible rules are consistent with the texts, which diverge in particular in periods of deflation or of negative growth of real wages. The alternative interpretations can have a...

[eng] Work duration wage-price spiral and equilibrium unemployment rate. Gilbert Cette. This paper assess the general reduction of work duration conse quences (RWD) on the long run equilibrium unemployment rate. Our framework is the price-wage spirals which are included in the big macroeconomic...

[eng] It is sometimes said that, in France, the extent of relative youth unemployment is due to the fact that there are no institutional methods, without considering the wide range of unemployment policies, that would enable to disconnect youth labour cost from adult labour cost. Such a...

The past 120 years have been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until the second world war...