Notre article presente les resultats des etudes consacrees aux effets du systeme americain de modulation des cotisations patronales a l'assurance - chomage )"experience rating") et quelques reflexions sur le cas de la France. Aux Etats-Unis, ces cotisations dependent du nombre des licenciements...

Notre article presente les resultats des etudes consacrees aux effets du systeme americain de modulation des cotisations patronales a l'assurance-chomage ("experience rating") et quelques reflexions sur le cas de la France.

Nous utilisons l'enquete Emploi pour estimer la structure des salaires mensuels qui pourraient etre offerts aux beneficiaires du revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI) et de l'allocation de parent isole (API) s'ils occupaient un emploi. Cette demarche noous permet de comparer le revenu disponible d'un...

Dans ce nouveau document de travail, le revenu disponible des menages beneficiaires du RMI est compare avec le revenu disponible a long terme de ces memes menages si l'un des membres percevait son salaire potentiel.

This paper uses two sources of information and different methodologies to analyze the causal effect of product and process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product...

This paper uses administrative data from projects for which an application was made to CORFO's (Chile's main development agency) Seed Capital Program (SCP) during the 2008-12 period. This paper analyzes the likely impact of the program-which is a subsidy provided to new, innovative firms on...

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her...

In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal sector, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, can have important spillover effects on the informal sector. The relative sizes of the informal and...

This paper uses matching techniques to examine the impact of internet use on individual earnings in six Latin American countries using recent household surveys data. Given their different internet use patterns and their implications, the analysis is done for salaried and self-employed workers...

In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal sector, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, can have important spillover effects on the informal sector. The relative sizes of the informal and...