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
We propose to evaluate the impact of the French Zones Franches Urbaines on economic activity. This public-funded place-based program, comparable to US enterprise zones, exempts new and existing firms ...
July 2011 - N° G2011/13
Since 1991, French taxpayers who employ someone to work at their home (for care, cleaning, etc.) can deduct 50 % of the employment cost from their income tax. In 2007, the tax reduction was turned int...
July 2011 - N° G2011/12
Market services in 2010 - Report on the accounts
In 2010, market services returned to growth. Activity rose by 2.3% in volume, cancelling out a year of recession (- 2.2% in 2009). Most activities recovered where they had declined the year before. Th...
July 2011 - N° E2011/03
Intergenerational inequalities since baby-boom
Cohorts born until the late 1940s benefited from a clear generational progress: from one generation to the next, the conditions for entering the labour market were more favourable, living standards in...
July 2011 - N° g2011/11
Tertiarisation of the French Economy and the slowdown in labor productivity between 1978 and 2008
In France, as in many industrialized countries, labor productivity experienced a slowdown over the past three decades: labor productivity per capita increased by 2.6% per year from 1979 to 1989, by 1....
July 2011 - N° G2011/10
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 insuffi...
June 2011 - N° E2011/05
In France, as in EU-27, agriculture recovered in 2010 after two difficult years. This growth is mainly due to the sharp increase in the price of crops. In total, France, the value of agricultural prod...
June 2011 - N° E2011/04
Entre 2005 et 2010 la mortalité infantile stagne en France, alors qu'elle continue de se réduire dans d'autres pays européens. Le changement de définition des enfants sans vie, en 2002 puis en 2008 bo...
June 2011 - N° F1106
The measurement of the hidden economy is necessary to ensure exhaustiveness of Gross Domestic Product and thus be able to conduct comparisons between countries. The part of firms activity that is not ...
May 2011 - N° G2011/09

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