Cette recherche utilise l'extension de l'Allocation Parental d'Education (APE) au 2ème enfant survenue au 1/7/1994 comme une expérience naturelle permettant d'estimer l'élasticité de l'activité féminine et de la fécondité en France. Les deux sources indépendantes et complémentaires que...

This paper uses the main income tax law changes that occured in France over the 1970-1996 period as natural experiments in order to estimate the elasticity of high-income taxpayers' taxable income with respect to marginal tax rates. Given the large pro-cyclicity of the very-high-income...

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...

These seminar notes report preliminary findings from a survey run in July 1998 in France on individual attitudes toward income inequality. The main finding is that people simply do not seem to disagree very much about the ideal pay scale and income ratios across individuals. Low-income...