Les déterminants régionaux de l’innovation
Ce document étudie l'apport de l'enquête Innovation dite CIS (Community Innovation Survey) 2008 dans la mesure de l'innovation à un niveau régional. Cette enquête a pour particularité de bénéficier ...
July 2012 - N° H2012/01
The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance on French Young Workers
In metropolitan France, in the absence of a child, only those aged 25 and older are eligible to the minimum income (called RSA since June 2009, or RMI before that date). This article assesses whether ...
July 2012 - N° G2012/09
In 2011, the volume of market services value added increased by 2.2%, almost as in 2010. Employment grew by 2.3%, that makes +156.000 jobs in full-time equivalent. Demand from businesses and administr...
July 2012 - N° E2012/03
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 (...
July 2012 - N° E2012/02
In 2011, in France, as in EU-27, the value of agricultural production is increasing owing mainly to the increase of prices, including animal products and wines. The price of intermediate consumption i...
July 2012 - N° E2012/04
Progressivity of the French Tax System: Different Channels in 1990 and 2010
Using a microsimulation model (Ines), we simulate taxes paid and transfers received by each household in a representative sample of the French population in 2010, applying and comparing the fiscal leg...
June 2012 - N° G2012/08
Spillover Effect of the Minimum Wage in France: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
This study evaluates the impact of the minimum wage on the earnings distribution in France, using an unconditional quantile regression method proposed by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009). To address ...
June 2012 - N° G2012/07
Pension Inequalities and Redistribution within the French Public Pension System
In this study, we quantify the amount of redistribution that is performed by the French public pension system, using Insee's dynamic microsimulation model DESTINIE. We more precisely focus on two issu...
June 2012 - N° g2012/06
A breakdown of households Wealth National Account according to household category in 2003
The household National Wealth Account published by the national statistical office allows to describe in a complete and consistant frame the constitution of stocks (assets and liabilities held by hous...
June 2012 - N° F1204
A scarred generation? French evidence on young people entering into a tough labour market
The late 2000s recession has hit youth very hard, lowering the employment and wage prospects of the entrants into the labour market. In this paper, we address the question of the persistence of these ...
June 2012 - N° G2012/05
School as a shelter? School leaving-age and the business cycle in France
This paper examines the impact of the business cycle on school-leaving decisions in France for the period 1983-2009. Business cycle effects are twofold. On the one hand, bad economic conditions reduce...
June 2012 - N° G2012/04
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

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