that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France’s regions over 1985-92 suggest that electoral …

Youth unemployment is notoriously high in France, in particular for the low-skilled. Within the EU, only the crisis …

While a great power in the eighteenth century, France fell behind Britain's lead in modernizing her macroeconomic … created by medieval and early modern France. The difficulty experienced by the government in mobilizing resources to fight … wars was a key factor contributing to the loss of France's overseas empire in the eighteenth century. …

We reinterpret the commonly held view in the U.S. that France, by following a policy from 1965 to 1968 of deliberately … interwar period and the French Plan of 1943. France used proposals to return to an orthodox gold standard as well as …

Analysing restricted access census data, this paper examines the long-term trends of immigrant segregation in France … from 1968 to 2007. Similar to other European countries, France experienced a rise in the proportion of immigrants in its … immigrants. Contradicting frequent assertions, neither mono-ethnic census tract nor ghettoes exist in France. By contrast, many …

Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was … upper tail wage inequality in France relative to other countries. Using a model with imperfect substitution between … wage inequality at the top of the distribution in France during this period is explained by the increase in the educational …