The mark-up has moved a lot in France over the past years. While fairly stable before the first oil shock, wages share in value added has strongly grown till the beginning of the eighties. It has since then declined because of economic policies oriented towards an increase of the profits share....

Adjustment mechanisms through the labour market are studied following two approaches. First, relative prices flexibility is analysed with a macro-economic model estimated for 14 European countries. Model simulations are used to study the consequences of asymmetric shocks; wages and employment...