[eng] It is sometimes said that, in France, the extent of relative youth unemployment is due to the fact that there are no institutional methods, without considering the wide range of unemployment policies, that would enable to disconnect youth labour cost from adult labour cost. Such a...

[fre] La situation de la recherche en France a été souvent jugée préoccupante. Par contraste, la meilleure tenue du Japon et de l'Allemagne fédérale face à la crise a été reliée à la croissance soutenue de la part de la recherche dans le produit intérieur brut de ces deux pays....

We review the changes in modelling strategy and econometric methodology when estimating a firm-level investment equation on panel data during the past twenty years, in order to assess which of these changes result from new estimation methods and changes in the practice of panel data...