The effects of the reform on the welfare of households are analysed with the INSEE survey "Budgets des familles 1979", using the methodology of M. A. King [1983] applied to a linear expenditure system where all parameters vary with household characteristics. The evaluation of global consequences...

We use King's methodology to describe the welfare effects of six VAT reform proposals for France, among which the proposal of the European Commission. Nous utilisons la méthodologie de King pour décrire en termes de variation de bien-être les effets de six propositions de réforme de la TVA...

English Abstract: We use a multivariate hazard model to analyse the ratification behaviour of ILO conventions by developing countries. The model accounts for two random effects: one at the country level, the other at the convention level. After investigating identification, we use a...

In empirical demand analysis separability restrictions are usually imposed as maintained hypotheses. The separability inflexibility of most functional forms makes parametric tests of these restrictions appear problematic. We follow Pudney (1981) in stressing the usefulness of a description of...

Morocco and Tunisia are performing in term of economic growth better than the average economic growth of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and middle-income countries. Tremendous efforts in terms of reforms and restructuring of the economy have been deployed in the early 80s. The...

The present paper focuses attention on the sensitivity of technical inefficiency to most commonly used one-sided distributions of the inefficiency error term, namely the truncated normal, the half-normal, and the exponential distributions. A generalized version of the half-normal, which does not...

Many budget surveys present the interesting feature that for a wide range of goods they contain information, not only on expenditures, but also on quantities consumed. This allows the computation of individual unit values for the spending of each household on any good for which this is true. The...