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The recent empirical literature that uses Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVAR) has shown that productivity shocks identified using long--run restrictions lead to a persistent and significant decline in hours worked. This evidence calls into question standard RBC models in which a positive...
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The long-term equilibrium unemployment rate has returned to the center of the economic debate in France. It derives from two macroeconomic equations. Wages are the result of wage bargaining on the labor market (wage-setting equation) and firms set the corresponding level of employment...
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This study investigates the impact of minimum wage (SMIC) increases on the average wage in France. We use two series of average wage: the average hourly blue-collar wage rate (SHBO) and the average wage per capita (SMPT). We combine these series with aggregate data for the overall economy over...
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Les réformes structurelles sur le marché du travail ne peuvent réussir que si leurs effets attendus ne sont pas neutralisés par des variations inappropriées des salaires. Cela invite à s’interroger sur le niveau de négociation salariale le mieux à même d’assurer leur réussite tout...
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In general, empirical studies having evaluated with firm individual data the effects of structural labour market reforms in European countries do not reach unambiguous conclusions. In particular, they find that reforms increasing incentives to lower the number of temporary labour contracts do...
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En matière de développement, depuis vingt ans, les oppositions radicales ont cédé la place à de notables convergences: tant le marché que l'Etat rencontrent des limites, il convient donc de combiner plus que d'opposer leur logique. A l'Etat les décisions stratégiques, au marché le rôle...
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Les théories contemporaines sont construites sur l’hypothèse d’une forte substituabilité entre travail et équipement en réponse aux signaux des marchés, en particulier du travail. La théorie de la régulation enregistre plutôt la complémentarité des facteurs et propose la notion de...
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We incorporate on-the-job search (OTJS) into a real business cycle model in order to study whether OTJS increases the cyclical volatility of unemployment and vacancies. The increased search of employed workers during expansions has two effects on the unemployed: it induces firms to openmore...
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The economic situation of all the major developed countries has changed significantly during the 2007-2010 period. Yet many economic policies have been kept in place. This is true in particular of a key measure in French government policy: tax reductions on overtime hours and their exemption...
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L'absence de persistance dans la réponse de l'activité à un choc d'offre de monnaie constitue une propriété contrefactuelle récurrente des modèles d'équilibre général intertemporels stochastiques. On est alors tenté de combiner des imperfection fiancières et des rigidités de prix...
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