In 2003, the French government decided to reform the system managing the different minimum wage regulations and the targeted reductions to employers' social security contributions. The main objective of the reform was to simplify the complex regulations that were created by the progressive...

The cuts in social contributions in France provide a good illustration of the difficulties in evaluating public policies. The state of technology assessment is not the most binding point of the evaluator activity. The nature and especially the pace of reforms put stronger constraint on the...