The paper deals with the analysis of labour force participation choices among parents who are eligible to the French parental allowance (APE). The literature survey indicates that most analyses focus on the very important impact of the 1994 reform : extending the allowance to second-rank...

Systematic post mortem evaluation of the macroeconomic forecasts' accuracy does not exist in France. This article shows that the performance of the qualitative survey forecasts amongst company managers, obtained separately by the INSEE and by Banque de France, are not very good predictors of...

This paper focuses on the factors which influence, in France, the behaviour of the judges who fix child support orders. The theoretical framework of arbitration models is adapted to build a judge?s utility function. Then our theoretical model is estimated with some original experimental data....

Luxembourg has a very unusual labor market, with only 29% of Luxembourgish nationals. The remaining workforce is composed of immigrants (27%) and cross-border workers (44%) who live in one of the three surrounding countries which are France, Germany and Belgium. Research on economic outcomes of...

The analysis of the at-risk-of-poverty determinants can be improved by taking into account factors at macro (regional) level. This hypothesis has already been made in previous research, most often at country-level, on cross-sectional data. We use longitudinal data in this analysis in order to...