La question posée par ce papier est la suivante : dans quelle mesure est-il souhaitable de taxer le secteur informel ? Un modèle théorique de taxation optimale permet d’abord de fournir une réponse analytique à cette question. Une version empirique du modèle permet ensuite d’estimer...

Cet article montre que dans le cadre d’un modèle d’appariement, la coexistence d’emplois de durées du travail différentes peut s’expliquer par des intensités capitalistiques propres à certaines activités. les firmes sont supposées financer seules le capital nécessaire à la...

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...

In this paper we analyze the decision of "working" versus "not working" within a discrete choice framework, where number of available jobs is confined and related to individual characteristics. In this way the market constraint from the demand side is taken into account. We also accommodate the...

This paper analyses the impact of migrant remittances on the supply of labour of beneficiaries in a developing country. The model is cast as a two period game between a resident and an altruistic migrant, under imperfect information of the latter about the true economic situation of the former....

This paper considers the formation of the urban formal ector wages in the presence of rural migration in a collective bargaining framework. We show in particular that the restoration of full employment in the presence of an informal sector can be implemented through a policy of subsidy depends...

The interest of the internal contracting resides certainly in its use like instrument of administrative and financial regulation of the health, social and medico-social establishments, because it constitutes an element of technical and financial viability of a health mutual, but more still as a...

We consider a simple overlapping generations model with exogenous fertility that analyzes the effects of the institutions of labor market and remittances on unemployment. In our model, the remittances take the form of insurance against involuntary unemployment. In this environment, it was shown...

Résumé: Cet article étudie pour la première fois en Tunisie le rôle du syndicat dans la détermination de la valeur statistique de la vie humaine liée aux travaux dangereux et mortels. En utilisant des données originales à partir de la Caisse nationale de la sécurité sociale (CNSS),...