La fécondité des femmes selon leur secteur d'activité (public/privé/non salarié) et leur catégorie sociale ne peut pas se mesurer à partir des bulletins de naissance, dans lesquels ces renseignements ...
April 2012 - N° F1203
Do Consumers Correctly Expect Price Reductions? Testing Dynamic Behavior
The literature on both theoretical and empirical dynamics requires agents to solve complex dynamic programs, which assumes implicitly that agents are fully rational and have the most accurate expectat...
March 2012 - N° G2012/03
Agri-food Trade : The Position of France in Internatinal Competition
This study presents the trade performance of the French agri-food sector over the period 1988-2009 using data from European customs. While this sector remains a strong point of the French economy (wit...
March 2012 - N° E2011/12
Wage structure and firm performance
This study describes the human resources management along several dimensions, based on administrative data (DADS and tax data): wage schedule both in terms of level but also dispersion, stability of t...
February 2012 - N° G2012/02
A Long-Term Evaluation of the First Generation of the French Urban Enterprise Zones
This paper provides new empirical assessment evidence on the efficiency of locally-targeted tax incentives in revitalizing distressed areas. We focus on the first generation of the French “Enterprise ...
February 2012 - N° G2012/01
La valeur de Shapley : Comment individualiser le résultat d’un groupe
Trying to get a personal contribution in a context of collective performance is a problem that quite frequently occurs in economics : what is a country's contribution to a region result ? What role is...
January 2012 - N° F1202
Méthodologie de projection de la population active à l’horizon 2060
Ce 10ème exercice de projections officielles de population active pour la France métropolitaine s'inspire de la méthodologie des précédents exercices. Il s'appuie sur les projections de population tot...
January 2012 - N° F1201
The economic situation of trade in 2010
In 2010, the trade industry started recovering from the previous year's slowdown. Although the recovery of sales in volume was marked in the wholesale trade industry (+ 2,8 %), it remained insufficie...
January 2012 - N° E2011/13
Market services : Report for services accounts committee - December 2011
During the first half of 2011, mainly market services gain nearly 80.000 jobs. At the end of 2010, they had recovered the level of employment reached first quarter of 2008, before crisis starting poin...
December 2011 - N° E2011/09
Agricultural Income in 2011- First Forecasts
According to the first estimates for 2011, the value of agricultural production rose in value and volume. The year was marked by a particularly strong recovery in prices for livestock and milk while t...
December 2011 - N° E2011/08
Restrictive Fiscal Policies in Europe: What are the Likely Effects?
In Europe, fiscal policy will be distinctly more restrictive from 2011 onwards. The fiscal consolidation efforts scheduled for 2011 represent 1.2 percentage points of GDP in the eurozone and 1.8 perce...
November 2011 - N° G2011/17
Learning, Incomplete Contracts and Export Dynamics: Theory and Evidence from French Firms
We consider a model where exporting requires finding a local partner in each market. Contracts are incomplete and exporters must learn the reliability of their partners through experience. In the mode...
October 2011 - N° G2011/16
The New Version of the Model MZE, Macroeconometric Model for the Eurozone
This paper presents the main improvements carried out to the macroeconometric model MZE since its creation in 2003. We have back-calculated the series over the period 1980-1995, in order to make the m...
October 2011 - N° G2011/15
L’enquête Handicap-Santé - Présentation Générale
Ce document commence par situer l'enquête Handicap-Santé (HS) parmi les enquêtes à thème santé, menées par l'INSEE. L'enquête HS reprend largement l'enquête Handicap-Incapacité-Dépendance (HID) mais d...
October 2011 - N° F1109
How has the variation in life expectancy for women and men of different social status changed over time? Changes in life expectancy for French women and men can be plotted thanks to data from official...
September 2011 - N° F1108
Employment in the farming sector in 2009
On average, more than 300 000 contracts a day are in progress in the farming sector in 2009. More than a third are seasonal, and one fifth of the non seasonal contracts are fixed-term contracts. Betwe...
September 2011 - N° E2011/07
The Environmental Effect of Green Taxation: the Case of the French “Bonus/Malus”
At the beginning of 2008 was introduced in France a feebate on the purchase of new cars called the “Bonus/Malus”. Since January 2008, less polluting cars benefit from a price reduction of up to 1,000 ...
September 2011 - N° G2011/14
La Fédération des maires des villes moyennes (FMVM) a sollicité l'Insee pour dresser un panorama de la situation des villes moyennes, lors des Assises qu'elle a organisées à Quimper en juin 2011. La p...
August 2011 - N° H2011/01
Panel Data Estimates of the Costs of Agricultural Production Costs
The current model for estimating of agricultural production costs has a long history. It aims to overcome the lack of cost accounting system which would provide a breakdown of production costs for eac...
August 2011 - N° E2011/02
Transitions annuelles au sens du BIT sur le marché du travail
In this working paper, we present a methodology to measure transitions on the labour market based on the French labour force survey (“enquête Emploi”). To use the longitudinal data of the LFS, it is n...
July 2011 - N° F1107

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