We empirically characterise how good labour relations can alleviate the negative impact on productivity of regulatory constraints or workforce opposition. The estimates are based on a unique survey of French manufacturing firms collected by the Banque de France over the period 1991-2008. Our...

Chapter 1 provides an overview and assessment of the price competitiveness and export performance of the euro area and the larger euro area countries, as well as an evaluation of how standard equations have been able to explain actual export developments. Chapter 2 carries out a constant market...

[fre] L'efficacité du capital fixe dans l'industrie, . par Gilbert Cette. . L'inflexion très sensible de l'efficacité du capital productif fixe après 1974 pose, comme de la productivité du travail, la question d'un éventuel épuisement du progrès technique. Pourtant, on peut se demander...

[ger] Einsatz von Schichtarbeit und Charakteristika der Betriebe, . von Gilbert Cette.. . Auf der Grundlage von Informationen über die Bilanzen, die von der Banque de France angegeben wurden, und anhand von Feststellungen des Arbeitsministeriums analysiert dièse Studie gewisse Verflechtungen...

[eng] Determinants of Profit Ratio in France and Other Major Industrialised Countries : Empirical Analysis Over the Period from 1970 to 2000.. This study explores the factors driving the observed movements in the profit ratio in several industrialised countries. It suggests the following...

[ger] Eine Erklärung des Industriellen Producktivitätsrtickgangs im zuge der zweiten Ölkrise,. von Gilbert Cette, Daniel Szpiro.. . Auf der Grundlage einer Stichprobe von etwa 3 200 Industriebetrieben bietet dièse Untersuchung eine deskriptive Darstellung der Faktoren, die Aufschlußüber...

This paper investigates whether increases in the minimum wage in France have the same impact on the average wage when intended to preserve the purchasing power of the minimum wage as when intended to raise it. We find that the impact of the minimum wage on the average wage is strong, but differs...

To teach international macroeconomics using simulations of a multi-country model. Note : This is a new presentation from the one in Prague which met technical problems. The Macsim 2 package allows to simulate shocks on a set of countries linked by trade flows, using various assumptions on the...