The papers in this special issue of Économie internationale/International Economics are a subset of selected papers presented at the XIII “Spring Meeting of Young Economists” (SMYE), which took place from April 17-19, 2008, at University of Lille2 (www.smye2008.com). Since 1996, the SMYE is...

This paper offers initial insights on the general circumstances under which a beneficial or a detrimental brain drain is obtained in the medical sector. For that purpose, we use an original dataset so as to analyze determinants of the evolution in the relative number of medical doctors in the...

Cette etude presente une analyse quantitative de l’impact du vieillissement demographique et des reformes des regimes de retraite pour les trois principaux pays europeens : la France, l’Allemagne et le Royaume-Uni. Dans ce but, nous utilisons un modele d’equilibre general calculable a...