This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations neglected by the economic literature so far, reproduces the main stylized facts about entries into...

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that explain the influence of trust on economic performance...

We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between working in the production or in the financial sector. Frictions in the market for deposits create...

Ce rapport analyse le système de la formation professionnelle en France et propose des pistes de réformes

Analyse des conditions politiques et économiques pour implémenter des réformes en France

Ce rapport analyse les effets du salaire minimum sur l'emploi et la pauvreté

Analyse de l'impact de la création d'emplois publics sur la création d'emplois privés.