Depuis 1970, le SMIC est revalorisé automatiquement en fonction de l'inflation et de la croissance du pouvoir d'achat ouvrier mesuré par le SHBO (Salaire Horaire de Base Ouvrier). Le gouvernement peut en outre revaloriser le SMIC par un « coup de pouce » discrétionnaire qui s'ajoute à la...

[eng] Mixed unemployment and economic policies. A disequilibrium model. . The works related to the disequilibrium theory often show that the situations of classical unemployment and of Keynesian unemployment coexist on a long-term basis. The following study deals with a theoretical model of...

The past 120 years have been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until the second world war...