The purpose of this paper is to show how gross job flows evolved during the first part of the 1990's. The 1993 recession could have seen an important structural change, where the less productive firms...
September 1999 - N° G9915
SAS Macro-commands for the econometrics of panels and qualitative variables#(in French)
This working paper presents a package of econometric programs that can be used easily with SAS. The main part of the programs deals with panel data. It includes the more widespread methods (between, w...
September 1999 - N° G9914
Breaking down non-employment in France#(in French)
This paper uses individual household data drawn from the French 1997 Labor Force Survey to study the effects of the minimum wage and of the tax-benefit system on employment. Our approach consists in e...
September 1999 - N° G9911
The dynamic microsimulation model DESTINIE#(in French)
This paper offers a detailed description of the microsimulation model Destinie developed at INSEE. The initial sample of the model, derived from the French 1991 Financial Assets Survey, is composed of...
August 1999 - N° G9913
SAMPLING CO-ORDINATION: A REVIEW BY COUNTRY.
Co-ordination of samplings consists in seeking a greater or lesser degree of overlapping of samples than for independent samplings. The terms positive and negative co-ordination are used, respectively...
August 1999 - N° E9908
In order to compare the retirement pensions provided to civil servants and to private sector wage earners, we build past and future careers of 27,000 wage workers of the private sector and 2,400 civil...
July 1999 - N° G9910
In january 1998 the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) surveyed 3415 recipients of the french minimum income RMI. According to this survey only 39 % of the RMI recip...
July 1999 - N° G9909
Financial analysis methodology
It is difficult to assemble all of financial analysis methodology in a single document, for two essential reasons. Firstly, financial analysis is a collection of numerous techniques and tools in const...
July 1999 - N° E9907
The effect of borrowing constraints on investment decision#(in French)
Investment plays a central role for the understanding of business cycles. But the investment behaviour, although widely studied in the theoretical and empirical literature, is poorly explained by econ...
June 1999 - N° G9907
Le modèle de Microsimulation INES#Description et exemples d'utilisation - Tome 2
Ce document de travail présente la finalité du modèle de microsimulation INES (INsee-Etudes Sociales) développé à l'Insee au sein de la Division Etudes Sociales, ainsi que sa structure et quelques exe...
May 1999 - N° f9902
Le modèle de Microsimulation INES#Description et exemples d'utilisation - Tome 1
Ce document de travail présente la finalité du modèle de microsimulation INES (INsee-Etudes Sociales) développé à l'Insee au sein de la Division Etudes Sociales, ainsi que sa structure et quelques exe...
May 1999 - N° F9902
Le vieillissement démographique soulève de nombreuses questions quant au devenir des transferts intergénérationnels et à leur soutenabilité. Les régimes publics de retraites sont un sujet de préoccupa...
April 1999 - N° G9906
Optimisation of a sampling with probability proportional to size.#The case of the CA3s.
The sizes of enterprise units are very heterogeneous in the enterprise population and the variables whose sum must be estimated have very asymmetrical distributions. This leads to surveys where the pr...
April 1999 - N° E9904
Innovation, employment and firm performances#(in French)
In this paper we examine the changes induced by innovations on a broad set of firm performances : value added per capita, per unit of capital, employment, wages and profit rate. We try to see if innov...
March 1999 - N° G9904
Modelling wage careers in Destinie#(in French)
This paper presents how wages and careers are modelled in the dynamic microsimulation model Destinie. This modelling is based on the human capital economic theory, and on parameters estimated with cro...
February 1999 - N° G9902
Can a Conservative Governor Conduct an Accommodative Monetary Policy ?
This paper shows that even under the extreme hypothesis of the appointment of an infinitely conservative central banker, an inflation bias can exist. This result can be explained by the possibility fo...
June 1998 - N° G9808
Equalizing Wage Differences and Bargaining Power #Evidence from a Panel of French Firms
In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of firm-level bargaining, along the lines of Manning (1993). We determine an equilibrium at the firm level. We obtain a wage equation which explains inter-fir...
June 1998 - N° G9805
This paper offers some empirical evidence on how do product and process innovations affect manufacturing sales and exports. Accounting for differences in technological opportunities between industries...
April 1998 - N° G9804
Contribution and limits of Real Business Cycles models #(in French)
The RBC (Real Business Cycles) litterature, which has arisen in the early 80's, aimed at proposing a new theory of the economic fluctuations. Originally the RBC models extended the dynamic properties ...
March 1998 - N° G9803
A generational accounting study for France in 1996 #(in French)
This paper presents an application to France, in 1996, of the "generational accounting method" developed by Auerbach, Kotlikoff, Gokhale. The essential features of this approach are first recalled. I ...
February 1998 - N° G9802

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