Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour‐market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...

France has the second largest population in the EU. Since 2000, the French labor market has undergone substantial changes resulting from striking trends, some of which were catalyzed by the Great Recession. The most interesting of these have been the massive improvement in the education of the...

[eng] The share of distance selling in total retail sales has increased steadily, driven by Internet commerce. Meanwhile, a large body of research has been devoted to measuring the impact of online shopping on consumer prices. These studies, based primarily on microeconomic data, reveal...

La présente étude s'inscrit dans la littérature récente sur les déterminants de la croissance selon la position technologique des pays. Outre les effets respectifs de l'éducation et des régulations sur les marchés des biens et du travail, elle explore aussi une possible interaction entre...

[fre] Cet article exploite une enquête représentative des établissements français de plus de 20 salariés pour étudier les relations entre la réduction de la durée du travail (RTT) et les changements organisationnels. Dans les années 90, la RTT semble s’inscrire dans une dynamique...

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...

We investigate the impact of innovative work practices on working conditions. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for year 1998. New work practices which play a key role in the success of the new economy, include job rotation and the use of quality norms....

This article studies some aspects of organisation choice while explicitly accounting for the fact that firms compete on the product market. Firms compete by introducing drastic innovations, while organisation choice results from a tradeoff between productive efficiency and reactivity. We show...