We use a two-sector neoclassical open economy model with traded and non-traded goods to investigate both the aggregate and the sectoral e®ects of temporary ¯scal shocks. One central ¯nding is that both sectoral capital intensities and labor supply elasticity matter in determining the response...

Avec le projet du Grand Paris Express, l’extension des infrastructures franciliennes de transports collectifs va impliquer une nouvelle donne pour les temps de déplacements des nombreux franciliens qui en deviendront les usagers. Ce faisant, elle est susceptible d’exercer des effets...

Using the French annual database (1950-2009), we conducted a time-series analysis to explain the role of GDP per capita on HCE (Health Care Expenditure) per capita taking into account structural breaks and non-linearity in the long-term economic relationship between HCE and GDP, controlling for...

There is now ample evidence that jobs and wages have been polarizing at the extremes of the skill distribution since the early 90s. Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) have suggested that this might be due to technology substituting more easily for labor in performing routine rather than non-routine...

At the end of working life, as well as reducing unemployment benefits, the unemployment-insurance agency could apply pension tax instead of wage tax. First, the pension tax provides greater incentives as the value of re-employment is tax-free. Second, the short job duration before retirement...

This paper provides a mapping of quality of work and measures its evolution between 1995 and 2005 by using European Working Conditions Surveys. With a multilevel modelling, we assess the sensitivity of observed trends to “composition effects” and “country effects”. Results suggest a...

L’intérêt des méthodes expérimentales d’évaluation d’impact est de mesurer de façon rigoureuse les effets d’un programme social même en l’absence de bases de données préexistantes et de cadre théorique structurel sur les mécanises en oeuvre, tout en identifiant les effets...

Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently....