The effects of the minimum wage on employment in Western economies are relatively uncontroversial. The introduction of a minimum wage in Czechoslovakia at the start of the transition, and its increase one year later, gives the opportunity to evaluate to what extent its effects on employment seem...

[fre] Le nouveau SME est-il plus asymétrique que l'ancien ? par Christian Bordes, Éric Girardin et Velayoudom Marimoutou . Le présent article s'efforce de renouveler l'examen des relations d'asymétrie entre les taux d'intérêt des pays membres du SME et les taux d'intérêt allemand, de...

This paper is a contribution in exploring the empirical evidence of the instability in the tail behaviour returns of stock market indices, based on some developments in the analysis of structural change models. The proposed approach can jointly determine the number of structural breaks in a...

We propose two methods to predict nonstationary long-memory time series. In the first one we estimate the long-range dependent parameter d by using tapered data; we then take the nonstationary fractional filter to obtain stationary and short-memory time series. In the second method, we take...