This paper deals with the impact of social contributions and tax cuts (which are considered as operating subsidies) on new firms' probability of survival and economic performance. We use a rich matched database of French firms that were newly created in 1998 and that include entrepreneurs'...

[fre] La comparaison des structures salariales à l'Est et à l'Ouest est tout d'abord justifiée sur le plan méthodologique : elle se fonde sur la similitude des fonctions et de l'extension du salariat dans les deux systèmes. Six pays de l'Ouest et quatre de l'Est font ensuite l'objet d'une...

[eng] The prospects of the labour markets linked to the political changes and to the mutation of the economic system are studied in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Whereas these countries experienced manpower shortages in the past, unemployment seems to be unescapable for the future. First,...

Technology transferred from a developed country to a developing country may hurt the welfare of the latter: such a transfer may be immiserizing. Even if this statement is commonly acknowledged in the international trade theory, the conditions and limits of such an adverse evolution have never...