This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy....

The contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) to GDP growth and labour productivity growth in France is estimated to lie between 0.2 % and 0.3 % per year over the entire 1980-2000 period. According to our estimates, it increased sharply in the second half of the 1990s, in...

The sustained increase in productivity gains from the spread of ICTs may increase potential output growth in the medium to long term via capital deepening effects and total factor productivity (TFP) gains, and in the short to medium term via the lagged adjustment of wages to productivity gains....

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy....

This study examines the effects that the introduction and diffusion of information technology have had on potential and actual growth of output and labour productivity in France over the last two decades. L’étude propose une analyse des effets de l’émergence et de la diffusion des...

This study compares the use of flexible working patterns in four European countries. In particular, working patterns that lead to a decoupling of working time and operating time are considered. The analysis is based on logistical regressions performed on individual data from the 2003 European...

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in the second half of the 1990s. In this article, Gilbert Cette from the Bank of France and the University of Aix-Marseilles II, Jacques Mairesse of INSEE-CREST, and Yusef Kocoglu...

Après deux années de relative stabilité, l'observation des spreads EURIBOR/OIS fait apparaître, entre juillet et écembre 2011, une augmentation de 80 points de base (spread EURIBOR 3m/OIS). Ce phénomène est propre à la zone euro. Egalement observable sur les spreads EURIBOR/repo...

La progression rapide des niveaux d'éducation en Tunisie s'est traduite par un accroissement de l'off re de compétences qui, comme en témoigne le taux de chômage élevé des jeunes diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur, n'a pas rencontré une demande aussi dynamique. L'objectif de cette...