[fre] Depuis le début des années 1970, on assiste à une érosion du modèle de l'emploi salarié à temps plein et à durée indéterminée comme « norme » d'emploi. Le développement rapide des « formes particulières d'emploi » au cours des deux dernières décennies en est le symptôme...

[fre] Prévoir l’évolution des taux d’activité aux âges élevés: un exercice difficile . . Dans tous les pays industrialisés, il est de plus en plus rare d’être actif après 55 ans. Ce déclin de l’activité des plus âgés est particulièrement important en France: il y est...

In this Paper, we analyse the changes in the risks of involuntary job loss in France between 1982 and 2002. We find that these risks are higher in the 1990s than they were in the 1980s. We develop an econometric analysis to separate the effects of institutional changes from the effects of new...

In this study, we evaluate the impact of the French Zones Franches Urbaines on economic activity. This public-funded place-based program, comparable to US enterprise zones, exempts businesses from taxes for a period of at least five years. For the purpose of this evaluation, we merged several...

This paper provides new empirical assessment evidence on the efficiency of locally-targeted tax incentives in revitalizing distressed areas. We focus on the first generation of the French Enterprise Zone intiative, implemented in 1997 in continental France. We use new georeferenced panel data at...

This study evaluates the impact of the minimum wage on the earnings distribution in France, using an unconditional quantile regression method proposed by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009). To address the endogeneity issue due to the specific French revaluation process of the minimum wage, we use...

At the beginning of 2008 was introduced in France a feebate on the purchase of new cars called the Bonus/Malus. Since January 2008, less polluting cars benefit from a price reduction of up to 1,000 euros, while the most polluting ones are subject to a taxation of 2,600 euros. We estimate the...