Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role played by parental education endowments vs intergenerational transmission of education in education differences between second-generation immigrants and natives for the French case. Design/methodology/approach First, estimates of human...

This article econometrically evaluates the impact of age at primary school entry on individual human capital accumulation and educational guidance for the French case. We use the natural experiment formed by the variation in the individuals? birth month and by the possibility of late or early...

Purpose – Applied research shows higher wages are associated with lower mobility at the establishment level. A usual interpretation is that high pay decreases labour turnover. The purpose of this paper is to test if such relationship holds for every type of worker in every type of firm....

[eng] The productivity paradox in France and in the United States : a re-evaluation.. In the United States, activity accelerated in the second part of the cycle from 1995 on, against a background of slower inflation. The evolution in France was qualitatively the same after 1997, indicating here...

Economic activity accelerated in the United States, in the second part of the cycle, after 1995, within an environment of decreasing inflation. France has followed a qualitatively similar path since 1997, also clearly suggesting the effects of a positive supply shock. The spread of new...

[fre] La réforme du 17 janvier 2003 a unifié les dispositifs d’exonération de cotisations sociales entre les entreprises à 35 heures et celles à 39 heures tout en réalisant sur une période de trois ans, de 2003 à 2005, la convergence entre le Smic horaire et les différentes garanties...