The paper presents a model of family judges’ child support orders when no guidelines are available. Based on the French case, it argues that judges weigh up their wish to comply with their institutional environment against their discretion and their willingness to find a compromise, by basing...

The paper deals with the analysis of labour force participation choices among parents who are eligible to the French parental allowance (APE). The literature survey indicates that most analyses focus on the very important impact of the 1994 reform : extending the allowance to second-rank...

[ger] Einige Überlegungen zur Messung der Auswirkungen sozialer Transferzahlungen . auf individuelle Verhaltensweisen, . von Jean-Claude Ray.. . Darf man noch die Hypothèse aufstellen, daß die sozialen Transferzahlungen, die immerhin eine Masse in der Größenordnung von 1 300 Milliarden FF...

We analyze the effect of local availabilityof childcare on mother?s labour market participation. We use a bivariate probit model to explain both labour market participation and child care use of mothers. The main results confirm that the local availability of child care has a positive effect on...

[eng] This paper describes the links between Young European Adults ’ earnings and the generosity of social transfers , such as family allowance and unemployment benefits . The links are described separately for three age groups and controlled for a number of individual factors , such as gender...

Systematic post mortem evaluation of the macroeconomic forecasts' accuracy does not exist in France. This article shows that the performance of the qualitative survey forecasts amongst company managers, obtained separately by the INSEE and by Banque de France, are not very good predictors of...

This paper focuses on the factors which influence, in France, the behaviour of the judges who fix child support orders. The theoretical framework of arbitration models is adapted to build a judge?s utility function. Then our theoretical model is estimated with some original experimental data....