This article uses a unique French survey that makes it possible to explore various individual determinants of workplace accident reporting. This survey covers a representative sample of 13,000 private- sector employees. Some 10% of workers suffer at least one workplace injury each year and that...

La Commission européenne a mis la France en demeure de modifier sa législation concernant l'équipement commercial. Le dispositif actuel, issu de la loi Raffarin de 1996, subordonne l'ouverture de toute surface de vente supérieure à 300 m² à une autorisation. Accusée par les uns de ne pas...

Cette étude s’inscrit dans la littérature récente sur les déterminants de la croissance selon la position des pays par rapport à la frontière technologique. Outre les effets additifs de l’éducation et des régulations sur les marchés des biens et du travail, elle explore une possible...

This paper studies the effect of credit constraints on the expansion and survival of firms in foreign markets. It develops a model of the multi-country firm, in which, lower access to external finance, or reduced internal liquidity, hampers the firm ability to finance the recurrent costs to...

Cette note analyse l’hypothèse d’un coût du travail excessif qui obérerait la compétitivité de la France. Elle montre les incohérences de cette hypothèse. En particulier, le niveau record des dividendes versés par les sociétés non financières en 2011 ne permet pas de valider une...

Both academic and political debates over the minimum wage generally focus on the minimum wage rate. However, the minimum wage is a complex institution composed of a wide variety of parameters. In this note, I show that nominal rates provide a very crude picture of minimal compensation and of...

Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour‐market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...

Using an endogenous growth model in an open economy, we study the impact of minimum wages on growth for an innovator country. We state that a minimum wage shifts efforts from production to R&D, but only in an open economy. Thus, it speeds up long-run growth in proportional to exports....