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...

[eng] According to the « Ricardian equivalence » hypothesis, when making their current spending and saving decisions, consumers take into account the taxes they will have to pay in the future, notably to service the existing stock of public debt : in other words, there is « tax-discounting...

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...