(June 2015) 5 papers... in 5 minutes !
- Many-Person Ramsey Rule and Nonlinear Income Taxation - Stéphane Gauthier and Fanny Henriet. Do principles of equity oblige us to apply higher taxes on goods consumed by the richest? Why not simply tax the income of the richest in order to fund redistribution towards the poorest? Research into the optimal arrangements for a reformed taxation regime has identified a special rôle for taxes on consumption...
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- Heterogeneity and the formation of risk-sharing coalitions - Fernando Jaramillo, Hubert Kempf and Fabien Moizeau. In developing economies where financial markets are lacking, households protect against income risk by forming risk-sharing groups and informal networks. However, social exclusion from participation in community-based arrangements is pervasive, adversely affecting the capacity of society to adequately provide risk sharing to its members...
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- Efficiency versus Stereotypes: an Experiment in Domestic Production - Hélène Couprie, Elisabeth Cudeville and Catherine Sofer. Most economic models of family economy assume that decisions within families are “Pareto optimal”. However, many empirical findings leave this hypothesis in doubt. Despite the entry of very great numbers of women into the labour market, the division of time within couples between paid work and domestic work remains, in fact, highly gender-differentiated...
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- Accounting for labor gaps - François Langot and Alessandra Pizzo. The evolution of total hours of labor has been very different in the United States in comparison to most of European continental countries through the last fifty years : today a typical American worker spends almost the same proportion of her time working as she did in the 1960s, while a French or a German worker decreased their (market) working time by roughly 30%...
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- Immigration Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in France - Hippolyte d’Albis, Ekrame Boubtane and Dramane Coulibaly. This article proposes a statistical evaluation of the relationship between immigration from non-European countries and French macro-economic performance. The relationship is difficult to estimate because migration flows can both influence and be influenced by the economic conjuncture...