Commentators have often linked the increase in births in France since 1995 to more generous family benefits. We study here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model of participation and fertility on a sample of French...

The purpose of this paper is to study the causes of unemployment empirically, using individual data and an approach which refines that of Meyer and Wise. Using the French 1997 Labour Survey data, we decompose non-employment of married women into three components: voluntary, classical (due to the...

[fre] Une décomposition de 3,25 millions de personnes de 25 à 49 ans sans emploi à l’enquête Emploi de mars 1997 conduit à isoler trois composantes. La première regroupe les personnes qui ne souhaitent pas travailler, compte tenu de leur situation familiale, de leur état de santé, du...

[eng] Forecasting Consumption and Production Thanks to Surveys of the Economic Environment - The answers of firm managers to surveys of the economic environment help specialists guess the short term trends of economic activity. . However, the reading of « opinion polls », the most frequently...

[fre] Prélèvements et transferts sociaux : une analyse descriptive des incitations financières au travail. Un ensemble complexe de prélèvements et de transferts sociaux s'interpose entre la rémunération versée aux ménages et le revenu dont ils disposeront effectivement. D'un côté,...