The persistence of high rates of unemployment calls for a discussion of the tax treatment of production factors. In France as in many other countries, material productive resources are subject to a legally recoverable tax, VAT, whereas unrecoverable obligatory social levies strike human...

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has in recent years devoted considerable resources to the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an overview of the key results of this research effort....

From 1997 to 2000, French growth came with increasing tensions in production factors. This fact is usual during economic growth. Nevertheless, work-sharing policy that was applied in France during the same period may have increased constraints on production. We used a French firm panel data, a...