This paper private individual wealth in France and its distribution during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries based on individual data of bequests collected from all over France. We focus on the distinction between thos who died rich (with an estate) and those who left nothing behind....

Dans cet article nous partons d'une vision de la firme comme définie par ses compétences afin d'analyser les transformations dans les modes de gestion de la main-d'œuvre et, en particulier, le développement récent de la flexibilité externe du travail au détriment des marchés internes....

This paper uses a unique database of individual estates to explore the geographical dimension in the historical evolution of the wealth distribution in France since 1820 onwards. We use inequality index decomposition techniques and micro-simulations of wealth distributions to stress the...

French firms laying off workers aged 50 and above have to pay a tax to the unemployment insurance system, known as the Delalande tax. This is a rare case of experience rating in the European context. We evaluate its impact on layoffs as well as on hiring, taking advantage of several changes in...

Intertemporal correlation aversion is an intuitive concept indicating whether an individual prefers lotteries concerning consumption at different moments in time to be positively or negatively correlated. I show that the difference between the coefficient of relative risk aversion and the...

Le système public de retraite par répartition est un pilier de l'Etat Providence en France. Il se traduit par des transferts financiers des générations jeunes et actives vers les générations plus âgées et inactives. Lontgemps donné pour l'expression même de la solidarité entre...

In this paper we examine the share of the French men who exhibit stunted growth during the course of the 19th century. We use data collected on all men who were called up for possible conscription into the French army with the unit of analysis being the shares of 20 year old men in the...

This paper reports the results from an experiment on two-unit sequential auctions with and without a buyer’s option (which gives the winner of the first auction the right to buy the second unit at the winning price). The demand for the two items is either decreasing, flat, or increasing. The 4...

Let, y, a binary outcome, v a continuous explanatory variable and x some other explanatory variables. We study inference on the parameter b of the semiparametric binary regression model y=1(xb+v+e0). We show that the set-up introduced by Lewbel (2000) that is, an uncorrelated-error restriction...