This paper analyses the basic features of technical and distributional changes in the US since the Civil War as the expression of the gradual emergence of a new paradigm, corresponding to a Managerial Revolution, and its replacement of the earlier organization inherited from the Industrial...

This paper analyses the basic features of technical and distributional changes in the US since the Civil War as the expression of the gradual emergence of a new paradigm, corresponding to a Managerial Revolution, and its replacement of the earlier organization inherited from the Industrial...

It is often argued that the tax on continued work should be removed by implementing actuarially fair schemes. However, these schemes cannot help finance the expected Social Security deficit. This paper proposes to give individuals on a fraction of the marginal actuarially fair incentives in case...

Cette étude a pour objectif d'évaluer l'incidence du salaire minimum et des revenus de substitution, allocation-chômage et revenu minimum d'insertion, sur les inégalités de salaire, sur le chômage et plus généralement sur l'optimalité de l'équilibre du marché du travail. Nous...

Transition to floating exchange rate regimes has led to sharp increases in nominal and real exchange rate volatilities with no corresponding changes in the distribution of fundamental macroeconomic variables. In the spirit of Dornbusch [1976], we assess whether nominal exchange rate overshooting...

The international macroeconomic literature attributes the nominal and real exchange rate volatility to two mechanisms. The first one, underlined by Betts and Devereux [1996], lays stress on the deviation from the law of one price due to Pricing-To-Market (PTM) behavior whereas the second...