This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of changes in the intensity of product market competition. The focus is on the interaction between imperfect competition in product markets and bargaining in the labor market. The main result is that, while a uniform intensification of product market...

Le partage de la valeur ajoutee en France et en Allemagne a connu d'importantes inflexions durant les 30 dernieres annees qui peuvent etre reliees aux fluctuations des termes de l'echange, a la progression du chomage ou encore a l'evolution des taux d'interet. Apres avoir derive une equation de...

Au cours de la période 1961/2000, pourquoi la tendance à la hausse des taux de chômage s’est-elle inversée dans des économies « anglo-saxonnes » comme les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni et pas dans des économies « continentales » telles que l’Allemagne, la France et l’Italie ?...

Economic surplus is the growth of good and services after the increase of factor of productions, labor and capital, is paid. It measures the technical advances in economy and is stated in percent of value added. It is shared out between different components: hourly wage, income of capital unit,...

So as to better understand households' consumption behaviour, the composition of incomes was not as regarded as wealth structure. Since the 80s in France, the former has dramatically changed though, retirement and unemployment transfers taking a heavier weight. Various reasons can justify that...

Publication by INSEE of very long time series of national accounts makes it possible to have a look on the distribution of value-added and its evolution in France for nearly sixty years. Apart from updating the conclusions, this article studies to which extent conceptual and methodological...

In this paper, we apply the surplus accounting methodology to analyze the distribution of the fruits of growth between production factors over the period 1950-2008. Three production factors are distinguished: paid employment, self-employment and capital. The surplus distributed to capital is nil...

The properties of WS-PS model are modified when trade activity is explicitly modelled. We introduce transaction costs on the output market to capture multiplicity whatever the degree of returns to scale. The price setting curve can become downward-sloping in the unemployment rate-real wage...