The staring point of the paper is the dramatic difference between the level of gender inequality measured on the basis of earned incomes or measured on the basis of living standards. The first part an...
April 2013 - N° F1303
À l’origine de l’enquête : enjeux de l’échantillonnage, collecte et pondérations de l’enquête TeO
L'enquête « Trajectoires et Origines » (TeO) de l'Ined et de l'Insee cherche à appréhender dans quelle mesure les origines migratoires (géographiques, nationales) sont susceptibles de modifier par ell...
April 2013 - N° F1304
The French cluster policy and the R&D spending of SME and intermediate-sized enterprises
The French cluster policy “Pôles de compétitivité” has been launched in 2004 to foster collaborations between firms, research institutions, and training institutions. Many firms taking part in these c...
April 2013 - N° G2013/06
Ce document présente plusieurs indicateurs permettant d'étudier la structure des activités économiques locales en termes de concentration et de spécialisation. Après une définition des différentes ...
March 2013 - N° H2013/01
Interpretation and limits of sustainability tests in public finance
Public debt is considered sustainable if discounted net repayments are expected to cover the initial debt issuance, i.e. if the government intertemporal budget constraint is expected to hold. With ris...
March 2013 - N° G2013/05
This study evaluates the impact of an increase in childcare subsidies on the use of paid childcare and the participation rate of mothers of preschool children. We use a natural experiment provided by ...
February 2013 - N° G2013/04
Temporal disaggregation of stock variables - The Chow-Lin method extended to dynamic models
Since the seminal paper by Chow and Lin the literature on temporal disaggregation has focused on temporal disaggregation of flow variables. Moreover, this literature on optimal methods has traditional...
February 2013 - N° G2013/03
This article provides evidence about how access to social housing affects living and accommodation conditions of households, using hedonic prices and stratified regression methods. First, I estimate t...
February 2013 - N° G2013/02-F1302
A State-Space Framework to use the Labour Force Survey at a Monthly Frequency
The International Labour Organization (ILO) defines unemployed population as the persons who are not in employment, immediately available to work and who actively look for a job. At INSEE, the mean of...
February 2013 - N° G2013/01-F1301
The economic situation of trade in 2011
In 2011, the trade industry continued to recover from the slowdown of 2009. The recovery of sales in volume was again particularly marked in the wholesale trade industry, which suffered most in 2009 ...
December 2012 - N° E2012/06
Accrued-to-date liabilities (ADLs) could soon add to the set of regular statistics on public pensions, in compliance with updated SNA provisions. This raises two questions: how can this indicator be p...
December 2012 - N° G2012/14
Agricultural Income in 2012 - First Forecasts
The agricultural year 2012 is marked by the abundance of the harvest of grain and a strong increase in their prices. Volumes of other crops and livestock are reduced, their prices are recovering, with...
December 2012 - N° E2012/05
Détection des disparités socio-économiques - L’apport de la statistique spatiale
Ce document présente quelques méthodes, issues de la statistique spatiale, permettant de déterminer des zones de concentration de difficultés sociales. Après une présentation générale des problèmes l...
December 2012 - N° H2012/04
Demand Estimation in the Presence of Revenue Management
Yield management has become a standard tool in several industries to increase the profits of firms facing demand uncertainty or consumers heterogeneity. But this technique also raises econometric prob...
November 2012 - N° G2012/13
La fécondité selon le rang de naissance ne peut pas être étudiée à partir de l'état civil, qui surestime fortement les premières naissances par rapport aux résultats que l'on peut observer dans les re...
October 2012 - N° F1205
Labor Cost and Payroll Tax Cuts: an Estimation at the Plant Level Between 1996 and 2008
This paper describes a methodology to estimate labor costs at the establishment level. This estimation is based on annual declarations of social data (DADS), which provide exhaustive data on gross wag...
September 2012 - N° G2012/12
The French tax credit dedicated to sustainable development: an econometric evaluation
A tax credit dedicated to sustainable development was first introduced in France in 2005 in order to encourage households to invest in energy conservation and to install renewable energy equipments. I...
September 2012 - N° G2012/11
Regional Estimates in the National Survey on Transport and Travel
The national survey on transport and travel was conducted during 12 months partially covering the years 2007 and 2008. Since it was designed to obtain information concerning the whole national terri...
September 2012 - N° H2012/03
Local Estimates of Disablement in the 2008 Disabled Person and Healthcare Survey
The household survey on disabled person and healthcare was conducted in two phases in 2007 and 2008. Since it was designed to obtain information concerning the whole national territory, a direct pro...
September 2012 - N° H2012/02
Projecting the future cost of the French elderly disabled allowance using a microsimulation model
Confronted with an ageing population, developed countries are facing the challenge of providing care to a growing number of disabled elderly people. Knowing how many they will be and, given the curren...
August 2012 - N° G2012/10

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