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The minimum wage: from labour costs to living standards. Comparing France, Germany and the UK

27 March 2018 0

By Odile Chagny, IRES, Sabine Le Bayon, Catherine Mathieu, Henri Sterdyniak, OFCE Most developed countries now have a minimum wage, including 22 of the 28 EU countries. […]

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France’s RSA income support: 35% lack of take-up?

16 January 2018 0

By Guillaume Allègre, @g_allegre The lack of take-up of France’s RSA income supplement benefit is often invoked as an argument for reforming the system for […]

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European unemployment insurance

4 December 2017 0

By Léo Aparisi de Lannoy and Xavier Ragot The return of growth cannot eradicate the memory of how the crisis was mismanaged at the European […]

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Universal basic income: An ambition to be financed

5 April 2017 1

By Pierre Madec and Xavier Timbeau This evaluation of Universal Basic Income (UBI), the flagship proposal of French presidential candidate Benoît Hamon, highlights a potentially […]

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Do we need a universal basic income? The state of the debate

13 March 2017 0

By Guillaume Allègre and Henri Sterdyniak In a situation of continuing high levels of unemployment and poverty, heightening job insecurity, and fear about job losses […]

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The national living wage: a new means to boost low wages in the United Kingdom

21 April 2016 0

By Catherine Mathieu On 1 April 2016, a national living wage (NLW) took effect in the United Kingdom. This may come as a surprise to […]

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A standard contract for France: a potluck approach?

24 November 2015 0

By Jacques Barthélémy and Gilbert Cette The debate over a single standard contract [contrat unique] generally arises in relation to the duality of the labour […]

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What is a Left economics? (Or, why economists disagree)

1 July 2015 0

By Guillaume Allègre What is a Left economics? In an opinion column published in the newspaper Libération on 9 June 2015 (“la concurrence peut servir […]

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Reforming unemployment insurance in France today: not a good idea according to OECD indicators

13 October 2014 0

By Eric Heyer Six months following the signing of a national industry-wide agreement on unemployment benefits between the social partners, with new rules that normally […]

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The 2013 pension reform: the implicit contribution of pensioners’ purchasing power

6 October 2014 0

By Stéphane Hamayon and Florence Legros Less than three years after the official retirement age in France was raised in 2010-2011, a new pension reform […]

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