We estimate a conditional convergence equation derived from an augmented Solow model where human capital is defined as skilled labour. We implement Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimators on a panel of countries. Estimation is carried out on the model in levels instrumented by the lagged...

We analyse the impact of the measure of the living standard on poverty and inequality diagnosis. Three measures are assessed on the fourth waves of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The first one divides the household instantaneous income by the current consumption units. The two...

The microsimulation model Destinie developed at INSEE projects the evolution of a representative sample of the French population up to 2040. It thus proves very useful to assess the effect of pension schemes reforms in the private sector on participation behaviour and financial balances. The...

In this paper we analyze the impact on the demand of capital and labour of changes in their relative costs, using micro data. We especially highlight the role of the user cost of capital, for which we propose an original measure based on the cost of debt and the cost of equity. We hence take...

French National Accounts have a long experience of calculation of volumes both at fixed year prices and at the previous year prices. This experience is described in a first time, and the fact that the chained series are preferred in base 95 is discussed. Then, two questions are analysed on a...

Most of the retirement decision models consider retirement as an individual trade-off between consumption and leisure and do not take the spouse situation into account. However, several elements could account for an interdependance between the spouses retirement decisions : complementarity for...

Detrending time series and isolating cyclical fluctuations is crucial for business cycle analysis and definition of economic policy. Band-pass filters provide a set of statistical methods to extract the cycle, defined according to a specified range of periodicities. Christiano and Fitzgerald...

The recovery in employment growth observed in the last two years in France allowed a substantial reduction of the unemployment rate. Since 1993, labor market policies have aimed at lowering the labor costs for unskilled workers. In the same time, the volume of unskilled employment, measured...

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the state of the local labour market influences pay, by estimating a Wage Curve for France. First it appears that individual wages are negatively correlated with regional unemployment rates, when taking into account individual characteristics. This...

This paper provides evidence based on French macroeconomic data, that shocks on the cost of oil inputs are transmitted asymmetrically to the prices of fuel. We use an error correction model to estimate the dynamics of the transmission of the cost of crude oil expressed in French currency, to the...