[fre] • Cette chronique fait le point sur l'évolution du syndicalisme depuis les années soixante et critique les diverses thèses explicatives de la crise du syndicalisme. • Ensuite nous présentons les premiers résultats d'une enquête pilote menée par Pierre Vergés sur l'acquisition...

[fre] Cette chronique porte sur des transformations au sein de la population active, sur la scolarisation régionale en France et la religion en Europe occidentale : • Naguère les pères de famille étaient « protégés » du chômage. Depuis cinq ans, ils ne le sont plus et il s'en suit une...

[eng] Education, external effects, employment : French case Jean Léonard Education reappears in the 1980s - 1990s with the «new growth theories» as a factor of economic efficiency rather than as a growth factor as long as the crisis lasts. « Growth Accountancy » (Solow dixit) carried oub by...

[eng] As it is the case with any real estate sector, offices are durable goods and it is possible to separate the market for office use from the market for office assets. However the American analytical and forecasting models which have been developed in this field of research, essentially take...

[eng] The future of growth Jean-Paul Fitoussi Since the beginning of the 90s, growth has been particularly weak in Europe, 1,3% on average (1,1% for France). It is the worst performance for a five years period since WW2. This paper tries to study the mechanisms which generate soft growth in our...

[eng] The crisis of the social security system is a recurrent theme of the political and social agenda in France. After the 1993's recession an important deficit surged again. A new debate started about the long term of the system. Some people argue that the cost of the social security system is...

[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...

[eng] The forthcoming enlargement of the European Union (EU) to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) will, in many respects, constitute an unprecedented move : no such an increase in size has taken place since Denmark, Ireland and the UK joined in 1972 ; moreover, CEECs' economies all...

[eng] The post-war period expanded the North-american pattern of massive road transport to the whole OECD area. Some aspects of this transformation are now under issue, particularly, environmental costs. Following neoclassical and welfare economics, governments are now interpreting these costs...

[eng] In 1996, world trade will grow, following the slowdown of 1995, at a pace nearer to its long term trend (5 % a year) than in 1994-95 (more than 10 % a year on average). The slackening is clear in early 1996, especially as concerns the intra-european trade. Afterwards, up to the end of...